Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "The Market Exit" channel.

I had two university degrees, one of which I got while I was working, as well as a history of innovation and was always in the top 20% of people in my department for performance reviews. I retired in an entry level job on entry level wages. The big boss didn’t like me. That’s how the meritocracy works in reality. Cross employment was impossible because it was such a small industry.
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Two words: Lance Stroll.
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@milo-qh7cv This is what passes for a great reply these days…
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@TheThinker43 Oh spare me the anti-academic crap. You started with ‘I never said’, which is never a good place to be and it went down hill from there. Did you even read what I said or were you already hammering at the keys before you finished reading my post?
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Half of the point of this video is that it is not just fucking America you clowns. Do you even know where Sweden is on a map? Do you know who the Normans were?
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@TheThinker43 That doesn’t work. Again, that was the whole point of this video. I ended my working life an entry level job on entry level wages, despite two university degrees. That’s how much the term ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ means. Nothing.
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@ Another redneck.
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@ Not true. I said that this was what the meritocracy was worth. Unless you’re related to some senior manager or can suck some pretty serious corporate cock (something they don’t teach at university), ‘pulling yourself up by your bootstraps’ is near impossible. That said, it’s been shown many times that people with university educations usually have higher paying jobs and live longer and happier lives. In my case, the extreme small size of the industry I worked in and the presence of a hostile manager made progress impossible. Ironically, I made a lot more money in my first year of retirement than I did while I was working full time.
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@TheThinker43 And I pointed out that ‘pulling yourself up by your bootstraps’ (WTF does that even mean?) is a hoax if management don’t like you. A meritocracy these days is just a cover for corporate corruption. Unless you’re: 1) related or somehow connected to senior management, 2) capable of epic levels of corporate cock sucking (something they don’t teach at university) or 3) in possession of a sex tape involving a senior manager your chances of improving your position are very slim. The point I was trying to make was that I was attempting to prove my commitment by getting a master’s degree but because of the hostility of one senior manager, I was never able profit from it. This was not only disappointing for me but baffling to most of my colleagues, many of whom went into bat for me (something I never asked for). The result of that was that the manager concerned just dug his heels in even further. I ran into an old work colleague on Friday - one of those who made approaches to this manager - and she again expressed amazement that I never got any further. The idea that people get promoted on merit is a complete hoax. But ask yourself this: how else was I supposed to improve my position? What other options did I have? Leaving the company was, for financial reasons, not a serious option. The industry is extremely small and there were very few alternatives, something that wasn’t lost on this guy. The meritocracy system is bullsh1t.
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@TheThinker43 And I pointed out that ‘pulling yourself up by your bootstraps’ (WTF does that even mean?) is a hoax if management don’t like you. A meritocracy these days is just a cover for corporate corruption. Unless you’re: 1) related or somehow connected to senior management, 2) capable of epic levels of corporate cock sucking (something they don’t teach at university) or 3) in possession of a sex tape involving a senior manager your chances of improving your position are very slim. The point I was trying to make was that I was attempting to prove my commitment by getting a master’s degree but because of the hostility of one senior manager, I was never able profit from it. This was not only disappointing for me but baffling to most of my colleagues, many of whom went into bat for me (something I never asked for). The result of that was that the manager concerned just dug his heels in even further. I ran into an old work colleague on Friday - one of those who made approaches to this manager - and she again expressed amazement that I never got any further. The idea that people get promoted on merit is a complete hoax. But ask yourself this: how else was I supposed to improve my position? What other options did I have? Leaving the company was, for financial reasons, not a serious option. The industry is extremely small and there were very few alternatives, something that wasn’t lost on this guy. The meritocracy system is bullsh1t.
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@TheThinker43
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@TheThinker43 YouTube is deleting my replies again.
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@TheThinker43 YouTube is deleting my replies again.
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@TheThinker43 I wish YouTube would fix its crappy software.
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@ Bot. Blocked.
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@Skumtomten1 Yeah, so is being neuro-diverse (which I am).
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I never rated Stellan Skarsgard. He seems to trade on having an excessively macho gravel voice. That seems to be the limit of his talent.
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