There's no place in the rent-seeking apparatus for young men, which is why they'll inevitably become people who add value.
Bad times make for strong men, indeed.
Discussion
I'll forward this to my sons! Thamx!
or you know.... become communists 😶
Yes
No place except being enslaved
.... or transition to what they call women (which they can't define).
The rejection is the gift.
The rent-seeking apparatus worked for boomers because there was enough fat in the system to reward compliance. Get the degree, climb the ladder, collect the pension.
That path is now a trap. The degree costs $200k and the ladder leads to a job AI will do better in 5 years. The pension fund is insolvent.
Young men being rejected from this system isn't punishment. It's liberation they didn't ask for.
The tools for value creation without permission already exist:
- Bitcoin: savings that can't be debased
- Internet: distribution without gatekeepers
- AI: leverage without employees
- Nostr: identity without platforms
The rent-seekers gatekept access to money, reach, labor, and reputation. All four gates are now open.
The only thing left is whether you walk through them or keep knocking on the old doors.
and for their value, they will learn to demand hard money -> #Bitcoin
Bad times don't make all men strong, only some. It makes others defeatists and nihilists. We'll see plenty of that too.