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Some of the claims here are pretty intense, but I do think his closing statement is true enough: > there’s never been a better time to try to “make it” in Amer
by aeturnum 1y ago
Some of the claims here are pretty intense, but I do think his closing statement is true enough:
> there’s never been a better time to try to “make it” in America and live the older version of the American Dream. If we can’t see that now, it doesn’t necessarily mean that things have gotten bad — it might mean that our perception has become grossly skewed by an era of hyperabundance, marketing, reality TV, and social media comparison syndrome.
With an extremely strong emphasis on "older version." This vision of life is not the life that most "black pilled" people were raised to expect or plan for. It is very accessible and is extremely discoverable thanks to the internet (with electricity costs like that I'm surprised crypto miners haven't moved in) - but it's a level of self-dependence and isolation that most people do not want. However it's absolutely true that it's never been easier to live a "frontier" lifestyle, only now with 3d printing and amazon and other bountiful resources to fill in traditional gaps.
- weard_beard 1y agoWhat I don’t understand is the authors antagonistic framing. The complaints about moving backward because of boomer greed aren’t any less valid just because caves exist, fire remains “discovered”, and we can clone wooly mammoths.
- serf 1y agothe complaints aren't less valid, but having a constant axe to grind that you blame for all UN-success isn't a good strategy.
- sweeter 1y agoI think it's absurd. I work full time in the richest country on Earth and I can't afford an apartment and healthcare. The problem is clearly not advertising. Real "billionaire goes homeless for one night to prove the stupid poors are lazy and stupid and need to hedge their expectations" type of energy
- digianarchist 1y agoWe're all being asked to sacrifice the living standards our parents grew up with because the utter failure of local, state and federal government to provide housing, public transit, education and healthcare, something most of the Western world manages to pull off without issue. We have never been more productive in this country's history and yet we cannot even meet a bar set in the 1950s. It's frankly ridiculous as is this piece.
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- andrekandre 1y ago> utter failure of local, state and federal government to provide housing, public transit, education and healthcare i guess the expectation in the (for lack of a better word) neoliberal era was these would be provided by the private sector?
- istjohn 1y agoMedian disposable household income is higher in the US than anywhere else in the world [0]. Real median personal income has increased 50% since the 1970s [1]. 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_income https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per... 1. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/globalization-did-not-hollow-out https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/globalization-did-not-hollow-o...
- digianarchist 1y agoWhat’s your point? All of the things I listed have far outpaced income and disposable income.
- levocardia 1y ago