(01-26-2017 10:53 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote: (01-26-2017 09:32 PM)iop890 Wrote: (01-26-2017 09:00 PM)BladeRunner Wrote: The only Mexicans I see are the ones doing the jobs I DONT want to do:...my gardener, car washer, cleaning lady, etc....They don't need to take those jobs from me...I gladly give them those
Those sound like good first jobs for American teenagers. I want American kids to be able to start a small neighborhood yard care or pool cleaning business and develop some drive and business experience instead of playing video games and jerking off all day.
Also, you need more internet points before you can shitpost here.
A lot of attention has been paid on this forum to why so many Millennials are such pansies. Part of it is absent fathers, part of it is education, but a lot of is the lack of doing difficult jobs in their teens. There's no better way to redpill as to the realities of work, and why you need to show up on time and not be a drama-whore, than have them spend some time in front of a McDonalds fryer. It makes you grateful for any other work you'll do by comparison.
Millennials didn't start out with low-end jobs because the illegals took them all, and as a result many of them are insufferable and poor workers. Once the illegals are gone and the next generation starts off at fast food places, landscapers, and all those other low end jobs that they're currently taking, expect our national productivity to skyrocket.
There is a little more to it than that. Doing a difficult job in your teens will educate you about the realities of work, but what you learn from waiting tables in your teens can easily be lost in the fog of a university degree you've been browbeaten into taking and fooled into thinking is a guaranteed path to riches. The obsession with university teaches people to hold out for the perfect job rather than take something that's there and now and available, and in particular it teaches people to minimise economic risk-taking behaviour at the one point in their existence where it's easiest to recover.
Let's consider two scenarios, where you're loaned $100,000 after completing a fairly basic education and have no direct experience in the business you plan to start. You are 26 years old in each case. You go into the business you loaned the money for, fail miserably, burn out and tank.
In scenario one, the $100,000 loan is a secured or nonsecured debt depending on how stupid your lender was, will take out most of the assets and hard property you bought with it, leave you trudging back to your parents' house, and will probably force you to declare bankruptcy -- a stinging hit, but not impossible to recover from: Trump blew four companies and came close to being completely blown out in the 90s, a trait he shares with Abraham Lincoln by the way. Indeed recovery from bankruptcy is probably easier in the US than most other countries in the West. It's one reason the US does so well in the entrepreneur stakes, aside from its other advantages: it assumes someone will fuck up at least a couple of times before they hit on a winning idea. And at 26 you are still young enough to go bust your ass in a physical job if necessary and come back financially.
This is, in essence, the position of 90% of small business startups. They're done by entrepreneurs. They fail. And they also generate the majority of employment in the US, despite what Walmart might tell you.
In scenario two, the $100,000 loan
cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. It is an albatross around your neck, making it literally twice as hard to recover from because you have to take more debt to start out again and pay off the amount that is still there. It is nondischargeable for what Taleb might call an Intellectual-Yet-Idiot principle/reason: it assumes that having this education you always have $100,000 worth of assets cruising around in your head which eventually you'll make back. The problem being with this assumption that, if you choose poorly to start with, you more or less can't.
This is not a hypothetical, by the way. It is in essence the position that a massive proportion of law students face on graduation from law schools now, here, 2017. Last Psychiatrist as always blames it on narcissism - you don't have an identity so you buy yourself one in the form of a law degree that makes you forever an attorney - but I think the better point is that the drive of people towards college at all costs (quite literally, and no pun intended) removes resilience. It blinkers people to the idea that you don't pay for and take up a career; you create one by bouncing from one job to another, doing Scott Adams' trick of picking up a useful skill or two as you go.
Do not confuse millennial job-hopping for savviness in this sphere: they, too, expect the perfect job on graduation and when they don't find it, tend to waste their twenties looking for it and not asking whether where they are is where they want to go up and pick up more useful skills. This is not the same thing as taking a few risks; it's anything but, still searching for a job to fit your identity rather than creating a career for yourself.