The average income of African American males between 20-59
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? No,workers need to get paid less. The problem isnt that workers dont get paid enough. The problem is greed,and the system that allows for it. And the people who dont get paid enough being willing to pay anyway. Whether it be for the look,their desire,or their own greed. Its a cruel unforgiving loop that requires govt intervention due to lack of discipline and recourse for the poor. But thecoli loves capitalism so most will probably be disgusted by that idea
This is not trueMost men making over 60K are grinders and networkers. They don't settle. They have drive.
The ones making under that are regular men okay with the money they are offered. Closed mouths don't get fed.
And I don't disagree with that.
Plenty of pattern matchers have done well in life, spectacular even.
The Asian Kids that become Asian Employees have the incomes and networths to show that.
And if that's the only idea of what "success" looks like - then I don't know how to argue that that vision of success is limited.
You're just repeating the same argument. Believe me, I got it the first time. Memorize the building blocks to build new things.
Thinking abstractly is beyond pattern matching.
Much like thinking creatively is beyond pattern matching.
No offense but you aren't in a place to speak down on others math. You were way off on the amount of interest you thought you'd be paying in that thread of you buying that old and used truck
You smoking rocks retard. I almost paid that truck off in a year fool.
"Get left behind" is a bootstrap trait to justify low wages on some indentured servitude BS
if you're not developing skills *and renewing them*, then how are you going to compete and progress?
All those entry level tech jobs have been outsourced overseas. They can hire like 4 people for the cost of 1 American still. Doesn't matter if they suck at the job or not. Quality doesn't matter anymore only cost.
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Statements like these are generic… what skills should black people be acquiring or developing outside of their current skillset?
If you’re in some flavor of IT I don’t disagree with this at all, but that only accounts for a small percentage of black people
What part of it is false?
Thank you for providing us a reality check.
People get in this thread and their take is that people need to work harder
stop being lazy! ... if this mentality prevails then America and Europe are doomed. There is no insight at all into the root causes.The struggle to find a
The single biggest problem that plagues us this: where capital is invested. We can contrast America vs China on this very point and then hopefully learn to demand more of our leaders and politicians.
Both China and America have run zero or low interest rate policies for a long long time now. In China it happens because banks are state-run public utilities (i.e. no profit motive), in America because that is set by the Federal Reserve. The contrast between how these two countries operate occurs at the next step, which is what do banks do with this capital.
In China, they figure out a productive industrial activity to start, and then allocate money and resources for that, funded by low interest loans, and coordinate local governments, real estate developers, universities, utilities, energy, infrastructure. The new productive industry eventually turns a profit, and the surpluses get spun back into starting more productive industry, and so the cycle continues. It works very well.
In this manner, the Chinese have built up regions with 20-30 million inhabitants in cities living a modern lifestyle to Western standards. Not once, not twice. This kind of development has been repeated in literally dozens of regions of such size, that are specialized into specific industries to achieve efficient supply chains all the way from raw materials to finished goods. Be it EVs, white goods, electronics, semiconductors, commercial aircraft, high speed rail, solar panels, wind turbines. Sometimes on land where two decades ago, it was just empty nature.
The scale and focus and coordination and planning that has been accomplished will boggle your mind once you appreciate how large it is. It's been done by capital investment on capitalist principles. There's no magic here, any country can start doing it. However, what they don't allow is that the surpluses accumulate as private wealth, and now we get to America.
In the US, banks used ZERP to fund real estate and mortgages, to the tune of 80 % of their lending. This is not productive industrial activity that creates jobs. It is however an excellent means for those with wealth to accumulate more and more assets (real estate, stocks, bonds) which enables their rent-seeking. Private wealth is also used to influence politics, to manipulate markets and artificially increase revenue streams.
Inflating debt and cost structures for all of the basic necessities of life is the name of the game. Americans pay $700 billion a year for prescription drugs, housing takes up 40 % of your income vs 20 % a few decades ago, inflated student loans, inflated and highly leveraged stock markets with stock buybacks (because apparently there are no productive investments to be found...). Our economies are fake scams deliberately set up to accumulate wealth to the top by sucking money out of the real economy of production and consumption.
Look at the trendlines, they been going for more 50 years. Where do you suppose it will end? Current generation is doing worse than the previous. This will keep happening until the system is changed. Cancel all debts and nationalize banking. Yeah we should all work hard. But you can never hope to improve society without insight of the troubles we face. It's not some natural law that says only Chinese can build stuff. Western workers in current economies cost too much, but that is only because of purposefully inflated costs which is the mechanism by which the rich get richer.
Ezekiel 25:17
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That's not a generic statement at all. You're making this more difficult than it seem.
You learn a skill, get your foot in the door, and keep learning to move up. You don't know everything on day 1 of the job. When I first got into my company, I didn't know how to estimate jobs, now I do. My next skills will be learning bluebeam software and learning how jobsites are run.
That's what it means to acquire/develop skills.
Field Marshall Bradley
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I would advise this to anyone in a lower income bracket going forward. Mexicans do it all the time… They pool their resources and come up together. South Asians as well
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I agree, with the number of black single mothers, that's something that really hurt us and at this point in time, there's no excuse.
its not overcomplicated and im not even sure why it requires some sort of layers or peeled back onion approach
'getting left behind' isn't some bootstraps ideology at all. you have to compete against people who are jockeying for the same positions and you have to continuously keep stride with your sector's evolution whether it be administration/policy, stem, it, medical, etc
i don't understand the need to even push against professional development like its taboo fr