Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Scott Manley"
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@PistonAvatarGuy Going to the moon was a cold war battle and fairly pointless beyond that. If you can't find a job or feel like a slave it's your own damn fault. No one owes you a job or an existence get off your ass and take responsibility for yourself. Create your own job, the opportunities have NEVER been more available or abundant.
College grads who can't find work are entitled and useless, they deserve to be poor, since when was a random degree a guarantee of success?? Useful degrees such as programming and engineering have long been in high demand, if you got a useless degree that's your fuckup not my responsibility. And even a good degree is no guarantee you still have to demonstrate productivity. (I know, that's a scary foreign concept to you, get used to it, I have no intention of busting my ass so you can be worthless)
Such grads can be mechanics, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, welders, on and on, the trades are reasonably lucrative and perpetually under supplied because entitled idiots are TOO GOOD to work hard for a living, don't even think of getting your hands dirty! They are too good for that. Useless!!
Yes there are MILLIONS of unfilled jobs in the USA, if you don't know that you are willfully ignorant.
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@PistonAvatarGuy People should spend however they choose but don't pretend their poverty isn't optional. My investments create jobs and modest 'wealth' for my future which will eventually be spent creating still more jobs and opportunity. Don't you think it makes sense to invest a buck here and there that can become $10 later? It's a question of efficiency and leverage, making the most out of what you have to work with, having your money work for you.
The old bit of wisdom that those who defer rewards are successful and those who don't are not, it's not complicated or difficult to understand. It's about trade offs and monetary discipline 1st and rudimentary financial savvy 2nd.
I started a business when I was 20, I had no TV, no toys nor stereo and drove a worthless old econobox, every dime and all my focus and energy went into developing my skills and biz knowledge, building equipment and a customer base. Once in a while I'd take my GF out to dinner or something but that's about it for discretionary until my biz was rolling.
Only after my college education was long complete, home paid off, no debt and modest investments did I think about my 'dream car' which I paid cash for used, half original price but immaculate. It wasn't a necessity so it's either cash up front or I can't afford it, and I maintain my vehicles myself.
And yes I save about $3k per yr. by making my own coffee, lol. Seriously.
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@PistonAvatarGuy My most rewarding recent investment is TSLA, Tesla. They have, astoundingly, changed the trajectory of the entire global automotive industry to a far more sustainable clean future and obviously created 100,000's of jobs just directly in the process. One of the biggest dirtiest old industries on the planet. Exactly, precisely the opposite of your narrow minded expectations. Maybe you'er too caught up in your gloom and doom scenario to notice it but there are plenty of ways ordinary folks can do well while doing good.
It's beyond me how you could fail so badly in the circumstances you described, all I can say is hard work is NOT ENOUGH. Never was nor will be. You may need to move half way across the nation, I don't know your circumstances. You certainly need to constantly improve your skills and go to where the demand is. And you damn well better be productive and honest. The smartest most productive man on Earth has negative value to me if I can't trust them.
Make it "easy for them", sure make it easier within reason but EASY has never been a characteristic of life on Earth nor would I want it to be. It's certainly easier today than most anytime in history despite some serious flaws in the system and major room for improvement. You and I didn't have to fight off the Nazis or build the infrastructure or internet that makes things vastly easier than the past.
Need I describe what I had to do to advance myself and my business before modern computers and the internet?? It was far harder just a few decades ago and yet folks still thrived, sure we were all poorer back then but we did OK.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a skilled welder or diesel mechanic to name just 2 examples and how much they can make? All sorts of trades are making near or well beyond 6 figures today often with only a few yr.s of intensive investment in their skills that are often paid for by their employer.
Maybe you need to pick up and move or make yourself more valuable in some other way? I don't know your situation but your clearly smart enough to figure it out. And don't expect things to get much better than they are today, these are good times economically speaking, that won't always be the case. Attitude is a big part of it too, some folks seem to always thrive while others with a defeatist attitude always fail no matter what. Surely you've noticed that.
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@PistonAvatarGuy Coal in America is already largely finished because of capitalism. And global warming is vastly distorted in the popular media, it's very likely that 500ppm CO2 (where we are probably headed) is better place to be than 300ppm where we came from. This universe wasn't made for us, there is no reason that natural random levels are automatically better than semi-random human induced modifications. The SPEED of change is alarming but not the magnitude, a couple 100 ppm swings are entirely normal over 100k yr. time frames.
In the last few million yr.s of ice age minimums CO2 fell to extremely dangerous low levels, near the point of mass extinction like Earth hasn't seen in half a billion yr.s. Plant life becomes impossible below 100 to 150ppm CO2 and then EVERYTHING DIES. Recent ice ages have seen below 180ppm, lowest levels in Earths 'recent' history, the last 250M yr.s or so, the current levels are greening the planet. Commercial green houses increase CO2 to 1000 or so to improve plant growth/productivity. A normal home has 1000 to 2000 when the doors and windows are closed, it doesn't harm peoples aquarium fish or corals let alone ppl.
Also we are due for another ice age beginning around now, over the next few centuries, it's highly likely humanity has accidentally prevented that or mitigated it at least. And while sea levels will rise in the short term due to fossil fuel consumption that's NOTHING compared to having half the North Hemisphere scrubbed flat by a mile thick ice as we should expect to happen without CO2 increases.
Life on earth did fine at vastly higher CO2 levels, 1000, 2000 even 6000ppm. The sun has warmed slightly since then however, we don't need to be going back to even 1000 but I'm tentatively fine with 500. All this media hype is highly misleading if you dig into the science yourself. They'd have us believe it's climate that's causing the massive fires in California and Australia but that's a smaller factor, FUEL LOAD buildup in the wild lands is the primary problem and entirely due to universal suppression of frequent natural cleansing fires and traditional native populations burning off the land seasonally being curtailed.
In California Sierra's some species of trees can't even reproduce until fire burns under them, fire is an irreplaceable component of the landscape, frequent low intensity fire is very healthy for forests, clearing brush, suppressing pests and leaving most large trees fully intact. Natives would light it off every fall, otherwise lightening would do the job.
We should have learned from the natives instead of exterminating them but that's history, we can learn now.
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