Wranglestar Rant
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Ok, let's look at something...I've always been an advocate for national service, either military or something like the old WPA or other type of service. But no matter what the kids would go in, I want to see a boot camp. Tailor the camp to physical abilities, but I want to see a shared experience. I want to see a melting pot situation. I want to see kids do without social media for at least six weeks. The carrot would be free high school or college courses, with free tutors while serving thir year, or free training in skills from cooks to construction to electronics or computers.
Can national service rewire young people emotionally?
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
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Ok, let's look at something...I've always been an advocate for national service, either military or something like the old WPA or other type of service. But no matter what the kids would go in, I want to see a boot camp. Tailor the camp to physical abilities, but I want to see a shared experience. I want to see a melting pot situation. I want to see kids do without social media for at least six weeks. The carrot would be free high school or college courses, with free tutors while serving thir year, or free training in skills from cooks to construction to electronics or computers.
Can national service rewire young people emotionally?
@Jolly said in Wranglestar Rant:
Ok, let's look at something...I've always been an advocate for national service, either military or something like the old WPA or other type of service. But no matter what the kids would go in, I want to see a boot camp. Tailor the camp to physical abilities, but I want to see a shared experience. I want to see a melting pot situation. I want to see kids do without social media for at least six weeks. The carrot would be free high school or college courses, with free tutors while serving thir year, or free training in skills from cooks to construction to electronics or computers.
Can national service rewire young people emotionally?
You know ordinarily I think I'd hate the idea, but there's a lot to be said for pulling your head out of your ass for a time.
All the stuff I said in my above post? I try to be as deliberate as I can about those things myself. It's helped and it continues to help. Kids might not be able to diagnose some of these problems, though. I know I couldn't.
Also, I'd be absolutely shit-terrible in the military. Completely godawful. But if I were 18 today, living like we do now, such a program would probably help me, despite my total failure in it.
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Here's where I think the rant resonates...It's when he's talking about the under-forties who are staggering under student loan debt or have worked their fannies off in blue collar jobs, but it seems like for all their efforts they're not doing as well as their parents or grandparents did at the same age. The COVID lockdowns have generated different priorities among these guys...More time with family, less OT to make their boss or company rich (like the story of the young welder, who found out the company was charging $200/hr and paying him $25).
Jamie Dimon made a comment the other day about Americans becoming lazy. I don't think they're lazy as much as disillusioned.
@Jolly said in Wranglestar Rant:
Here's where I think the rant resonates...It's when he's talking about the under-forties who are staggering under student loan debt or have worked their fannies off in blue collar jobs, but it seems like for all their efforts they're not doing as well as their parents or grandparents did at the same age. The COVID lockdowns have generated different priorities among these guys...More time with family, less OT to make their boss or company rich (like the story of the young welder, who found out the company was charging $200/hr and paying him $25).
Jamie Dimon made a comment the other day about Americans becoming lazy. I don't think they're lazy as much as disillusioned.
Hence you see policy proposals like:
- Raising federal minimum wage
- Mandate reporting of CEO/CxO pay to employee median pay ratio
- Billionaire taxes
- Universal basic income
- Student loan forgiveness
- Free college
Etc.
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Ok, let's look at something...I've always been an advocate for national service, either military or something like the old WPA or other type of service. But no matter what the kids would go in, I want to see a boot camp. Tailor the camp to physical abilities, but I want to see a shared experience. I want to see a melting pot situation. I want to see kids do without social media for at least six weeks. The carrot would be free high school or college courses, with free tutors while serving thir year, or free training in skills from cooks to construction to electronics or computers.
Can national service rewire young people emotionally?
@Jolly said in Wranglestar Rant:
Ok, let's look at something...I've always been an advocate for national service, either military or something like the old WPA or other type of service. But no matter what the kids would go in, I want to see a boot camp. Tailor the camp to physical abilities, but I want to see a shared experience. I want to see a melting pot situation. I want to see kids do without social media for at least six weeks. The carrot would be free high school or college courses, with free tutors while serving thir year, or free training in skills from cooks to construction to electronics or computers.
Can national service rewire young people emotionally?
The rich and resourceful lot won’t need your carrots will simply send their kids overseas to avoid boot camp if you try to mandate it. Shared experience is good only if the masses see that all the nobles suffer like the commoners.
Most of the stuff that YouTuber complains about stem from acute wealth gap, acute concentration of wealth. Gotta to keep that wealth gap under control or you will get a revolution.
Incidentally, I wonder if he ever wonders of about how much money he makes for YouTube/Google compared to how much YouTube pays him for his content … would it be worse that the welder’s story? After all, chances are even fewer people can make a living from being a YouTuber than being a welder, and Alphabet/Google is bigger than any construction firm.
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@Jolly said in Wranglestar Rant:
Here's where I think the rant resonates...It's when he's talking about the under-forties who are staggering under student loan debt or have worked their fannies off in blue collar jobs, but it seems like for all their efforts they're not doing as well as their parents or grandparents did at the same age. The COVID lockdowns have generated different priorities among these guys...More time with family, less OT to make their boss or company rich (like the story of the young welder, who found out the company was charging $200/hr and paying him $25).
Jamie Dimon made a comment the other day about Americans becoming lazy. I don't think they're lazy as much as disillusioned.
Hence you see policy proposals like:
- Raising federal minimum wage
- Mandate reporting of CEO/CxO pay to employee median pay ratio
- Billionaire taxes
- Universal basic income
- Student loan forgiveness
- Free college
Etc.
@Axtremus said in Wranglestar Rant:
@Jolly said in Wranglestar Rant:
Here's where I think the rant resonates...It's when he's talking about the under-forties who are staggering under student loan debt or have worked their fannies off in blue collar jobs, but it seems like for all their efforts they're not doing as well as their parents or grandparents did at the same age. The COVID lockdowns have generated different priorities among these guys...More time with family, less OT to make their boss or company rich (like the story of the young welder, who found out the company was charging $200/hr and paying him $25).
Jamie Dimon made a comment the other day about Americans becoming lazy. I don't think they're lazy as much as disillusioned.
Hence you see policy proposals like:
- Raising federal minimum wage
- Mandate reporting of CEO/CxO pay to employee median pay ratio
- Billionaire taxes
- Universal basic income
- Student loan forgiveness
- Free college
Etc.
You might get #2. Might. Probably will get #1. The rest? I don't think so.
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@Jolly said in Wranglestar Rant:
Ok, let's look at something...I've always been an advocate for national service, either military or something like the old WPA or other type of service. But no matter what the kids would go in, I want to see a boot camp. Tailor the camp to physical abilities, but I want to see a shared experience. I want to see a melting pot situation. I want to see kids do without social media for at least six weeks. The carrot would be free high school or college courses, with free tutors while serving thir year, or free training in skills from cooks to construction to electronics or computers.
Can national service rewire young people emotionally?
The rich and resourceful lot won’t need your carrots will simply send their kids overseas to avoid boot camp if you try to mandate it. Shared experience is good only if the masses see that all the nobles suffer like the commoners.
Most of the stuff that YouTuber complains about stem from acute wealth gap, acute concentration of wealth. Gotta to keep that wealth gap under control or you will get a revolution.
Incidentally, I wonder if he ever wonders of about how much money he makes for YouTube/Google compared to how much YouTube pays him for his content … would it be worse that the welder’s story? After all, chances are even fewer people can make a living from being a YouTuber than being a welder, and Alphabet/Google is bigger than any construction firm.
@Axtremus said in Wranglestar Rant:
@Jolly said in Wranglestar Rant:
Ok, let's look at something...I've always been an advocate for national service, either military or something like the old WPA or other type of service. But no matter what the kids would go in, I want to see a boot camp. Tailor the camp to physical abilities, but I want to see a shared experience. I want to see a melting pot situation. I want to see kids do without social media for at least six weeks. The carrot would be free high school or college courses, with free tutors while serving thir year, or free training in skills from cooks to construction to electronics or computers.
Can national service rewire young people emotionally?
The rich and resourceful lot won’t need your carrots will simply send their kids overseas to avoid boot camp if you try to mandate it. Shared experience is good only if the masses see that all the nobles suffer like the commoners.
Most of the stuff that YouTuber complains about stem from acute wealth gap, acute concentration of wealth. Gotta to keep that wealth gap under control or you will get a revolution.
Incidentally, I wonder if he ever wonders of about how much money he makes for YouTube/Google compared to how much YouTube pays him for his content … would it be worse that the welder’s story? After all, chances are even fewer people can make a living from being a YouTuber than being a welder, and Alphabet/Google is bigger than any construction firm.
Good. Avoid it and go to jail. Do not pass Go. Collect nothing but your felony sentence.
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Ok, let's look at something...I've always been an advocate for national service, either military or something like the old WPA or other type of service. But no matter what the kids would go in, I want to see a boot camp. Tailor the camp to physical abilities, but I want to see a shared experience. I want to see a melting pot situation. I want to see kids do without social media for at least six weeks. The carrot would be free high school or college courses, with free tutors while serving thir year, or free training in skills from cooks to construction to electronics or computers.
Can national service rewire young people emotionally?
@Jolly said in Wranglestar Rant:
Ok, let's look at something...I've always been an advocate for national service, either military or something like the old WPA or other type of service. But no matter what the kids would go in, I want to see a boot camp. Tailor the camp to physical abilities, but I want to see a shared experience. I want to see a melting pot situation. I want to see kids do without social media for at least six weeks. The carrot would be free high school or college courses, with free tutors while serving thir year, or free training in skills from cooks to construction to electronics or computers.
Can national service rewire young people emotionally?
I think that is a good idea. I have been in situations that were isolated in one way or another (of course not as dangerous as the military or anything like that). But, because there wasnt any "outside" distractions, we had to bond with each other. Some great memories and great life long friends were made during those times.
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@Jolly said in Wranglestar Rant:
Ok, let's look at something...I've always been an advocate for national service, either military or something like the old WPA or other type of service. But no matter what the kids would go in, I want to see a boot camp. Tailor the camp to physical abilities, but I want to see a shared experience. I want to see a melting pot situation. I want to see kids do without social media for at least six weeks. The carrot would be free high school or college courses, with free tutors while serving thir year, or free training in skills from cooks to construction to electronics or computers.
Can national service rewire young people emotionally?
I think that is a good idea. I have been in situations that were isolated in one way or another (of course not as dangerous as the military or anything like that). But, because there wasnt any "outside" distractions, we had to bond with each other. Some great memories and great life long friends were made during those times.
@taiwan_girl said in Wranglestar Rant:
I have been in situations that were isolated in one way or another (of course not as dangerous as the military or anything like that). But, because there wasnt any "outside" distractions, we had to bond with each other. Some great memories and great life long friends were made during those times.
Now imagine some truly resourceful families rig the system such that their kids only go into that sort of situations with the kids from the right families.
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@taiwan_girl said in Wranglestar Rant:
I have been in situations that were isolated in one way or another (of course not as dangerous as the military or anything like that). But, because there wasnt any "outside" distractions, we had to bond with each other. Some great memories and great life long friends were made during those times.
Now imagine some truly resourceful families rig the system such that their kids only go into that sort of situations with the kids from the right families.
@Axtremus said in Wranglestar Rant:
@taiwan_girl said in Wranglestar Rant:
I have been in situations that were isolated in one way or another (of course not as dangerous as the military or anything like that). But, because there wasnt any "outside" distractions, we had to bond with each other. Some great memories and great life long friends were made during those times.
Now imagine some truly resourceful families rig the system such that their kids only go into that sort of situations with the kids from the right families.
Now imagine...Covers a lot of insignificant ground, doesn't it?
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@Axtremus said in Wranglestar Rant:
@taiwan_girl said in Wranglestar Rant:
I have been in situations that were isolated in one way or another (of course not as dangerous as the military or anything like that). But, because there wasnt any "outside" distractions, we had to bond with each other. Some great memories and great life long friends were made during those times.
Now imagine some truly resourceful families rig the system such that their kids only go into that sort of situations with the kids from the right families.
Now imagine...Covers a lot of insignificant ground, doesn't it?
@Jolly said in Wranglestar Rant:
@Axtremus said in Wranglestar Rant:
@taiwan_girl said in Wranglestar Rant:
I have been in situations that were isolated in one way or another (of course not as dangerous as the military or anything like that). But, because there wasnt any "outside" distractions, we had to bond with each other. Some great memories and great life long friends were made during those times.
Now imagine some truly resourceful families rig the system such that their kids only go into that sort of situations with the kids from the right families.
Now imagine...Covers a lot of insignificant ground, doesn't it?
For Ax, yeah.
