There are a few core "truths" that govern what I do and how I act.
1. The middle class is dying.
Since the end of WW2 wages have stagnated and the average person doesn't understand why.
Wages are governed by market-forces. The job market is based on supply and demand.
As more people get educations each education becomes worth less, since there is a higher supply of educated persons.
An educated person today is worth the same as an uneducated person was 60 years ago.
An uneducated person today is worth what an slave was 60 years ago.
That's why uneducated people become slaves and normally educated people struggle.
I'll repeat myself again and only because most people don't seem to understand this fundamental fact:
Wages are based on supply and demand of skill. If you are easily replaceable someone else will take your job for cheaper.
There is no "fair" there is no "they can't do that" there is no "I need a liveable wage" there is only the market.
The market decides and the market is truth.
The government can only do so much to fight the market, it's unnatural and ineffective long-term.
Fairness is a myth that has only been spread the last few decades of unrealistic prosperity.
It's entitled to assume you deserve to live.
If you want you and your family to live, you have to fight for it.
Work as hard as possible, become un-replacable.
As we move towards AI and low skilled-labour gets phased out the competition for high wages will be even harder.
We are turning into a hyper competitive job-market, where anyone not participating becomes a slave.
Compare it to Fortnite ranked leagues, how much do the bottom players get paid?
Nothing.
There's too many of them, and nobody wants to pay them.
The top 10? They're balling out.
As with everything else, the top 20%, reaps 80% of the Ponzi.
It will only get worse, and the only way to win is to become hyper-competetive, win, and buy the right assets as they appreciate.
I'll link other posts on what these assets should be.
The right wing meme of "work harder" is true, but is it fair that everyone has to compete in an ultra-competetive way just to survive?
No..
Is it the way life is? Yes
Will you stay poor and cry about it or will you do something about it?