Some men drown while others die of thirst.
2001 wagie, I had to do this advice:
I've hopped between jobs for the past few years, physically going to places and basically exhausting dialogue options from the local NPCs until they're comfortable with me, then I ask if there's work to do and the success rate is much higher than applying online. Not that online is impossible, you just need:
Copy the job description/requirements, paste it in small white font so that it's invisible without highlighting it, and the computer will say you're a match. Once it gets past that, you're up to the HR game of chance, but at least you don't get filtered immediately.
An atheist celebrating anti natalism. I am not surprised
I don't blame that attitude either. If companies can fib about every little thing when hiring, why can't we? Those recruiters are paid high wages to lie and waste our time with something that doesn't have to do with the job. Many of my friends have had their time wasted with phone interviews going nowhere, or when they get to an in-person interview, they get told "We'll get back to you in a few days," get ghosted and told a month later (if lucky) that they weren't the right fit. It's like cheating a bit with bullshit electives, it's all a crock of shit and they know it as well. Play their game back, and try to win at it.
I am neither atheist nor antinatalist, but this ties into the post I was just about to make, so it's fine.
Job market sucks. If you're in a blue state go for entry level public sector and work your way up. You can get somewhere and get some experience that you can then use to jump into the private sector if you want once it picks up, or you can keep working your way up if you manage to get a comfy position. Public sector jobs will probably be more resistant to AI due to laws about safeguarding PII. If you're in a red state it's going to be a grind.
I truly have no idea anymore. Probably a time frozen in the 1890s and 1900s. I always liked the look of it, my family lived really well off back then like now. Felt like there was more adventure in that time period than what we have in the present. Maybe when pigs fly I can get a time machine. I don't try to focus on an ideal world, or a fantasyland unless I'm truly bored. It's always interesting to think about, but to obsess over it never bodes well.
Also 'convert to organic agriculture' and 'shrinking population is good' are contradictory. Organic agriculture is much more labor-intensive - you need young bodies in the field and more family farms which typically rely on large families working the land. What we should do is hermetically seal off India and Africa, let them starve or kill each other or be enslaved by the Chinese and Arabs, but they cannot leave. Deport every single foreigner back to their benighted shores - maybe we could sell them to the Arabs like the good old days. Then rebuild a real farming culture in the West using our own people. This would of course require a political sea change that I don't see happening, as the reason that we drench our food in poison and literally destroy the surplus crops or dump them in Africa to fuel an unsustainable population boom is because industrial agriculture at scale is easily subjected to corporate control by moneyed interests, while organic, local food supply chains are not.
Another FYI for zoomies: measles is not a serious disease. The scary news stories about it are comical to anyone from older generations. This is how people talked about the measles back when everyone got them:
You said that decreasing the population would make organic agriculture impossible, but that industrial agriculture developed in part to fuel an unsustainable population boom. A global population of 2 billion could be fed from family farms alone. Automation could also help make organic agriculture more feasible, combined with the fact that a smaller population means fewer farmhands are necessary.
Yes, but do you understand the consequences of sustaining 8 billion people? How do you think 10 billion people could be sustained? I'm not speaking at a social level; I'm speaking in terms of preserving and allocating natural resources. Good luck forging communities and having purpose when most habitable land is either flooded or too hot for humans and we all have to live in mega apartments or dense slums like in China and India, two countries with wildly out-of-control populations.
It didn't. We produce far too much food, to the point where we actively subsidize its destruction. Food is transported in ways that are highly fuel inefficient and make no sense. Food policy/industrialization has zero to do with feeding people, it has to do with control. Whatever mode of agriculture can be subjected to corporate control is the one which is pushed. We could have continued feeding our population healthy, locally grown food easily.
I'm sure it will cause huge dysfunction in dysfunctional cultures. Let them squabble. Let them starve. Let them die. White people are a tiny fraction of the global population and that fraction has been shrinking for decades. Europe is by no means overpopulated if you eliminate the recent influx of genetic dross. The same applies to America to an even larger degree. We're an enormous continent with plenty of land. The vast majority of land in North America will not be underwater even if every speck of ice on earth melts. Global warming isn't really something I'm concerned about - it's a double-edged sword that will also see extended growing seasons in cooler areas to offset other issues like desertification. It is a slow-moving disaster which can be adapted to. Indians leaving India is not. If your idea of population control is nuking the subcontinent, I'm all for it. If it's white people not having kids, I'll pass.
It truly depends, some get by on dumb luck, or trustfunds, the latter especially being me. I am also worried about how other zoomers will do when learned helplessness is ingrained in them. The local public schools aren't helping either when they are bumping failing grades to passing grades, and banning giving zeros, and the disastrous inclusion policies where elementary school aged gen alpha are scared of attending when a violent tard wrecks the classroom. A kindergartener should not be scared of attending school because of one or two disruptive classmates. For your students, it will be split in half. The ones who didn't give a shit and wouldn't motivate themselves for anything are working somewhere dead end, or never bothered to do anything. The ones who actually tried and were willing to learn are hopefully somewhere better.
Why are you scared?
Using KF as a minor is very gay.
Idk man, everything feels so dystopic and hopeless, maybe it's because i'm an europoor. (Wrong reply lol)
How so?
>More and more brownskins on the cities i'm usually in, even some small towns
Im in the same boat. For me its fair game.