What people miss when they invoke that type of rhetoric is their perspective is far too skewed to the individual, neglecting the fact that there's an entire nation to consider
If one person tells you they're hurting you could give them advice on popping jobs and trades. You could direct them to effective skills that could have an enormous effect on their situation. I'll never downplay the effectiveness of skill acquisition
But what do you do when that one person is 50 thousand? 3 million? You can't tell them all to learn Java, become a plumber, or apply to the post office. The middle class is America's crowning achievement because there was a system in place for the 50 thousand/3 million to eat, play, and create a family. That shyt is rapidly crumbling before our very eyes so individualist nikkas need to adopt some nuance because this shyt effects us all
Threads like this are funny to me because they're a direct companion to the "Why Is Gen Z Crashing Out So Much" "Why Doesn't Gen Z Care ABOUT Anything" threads and nikkas dont even see the connection
Big facts here as well. It just ain't how real life works or is an oversimplification of it idealistically.
When you tell a group of people to go do something, when more people do that thing it also means less spots are available
over time.
It's like when you think of a population of bacteria and how it exponentially grows: two creates 4 then 8, 16, 32, 64,etc.
The population grows exponentially, but the space that population has left to grow
shrinks.
It gets more complicated when the first group that spreads gets ownership of more space.
People don't account for the self-adjusting that occurs because of the
constraints and the self-adjusting can be outright horrible for the people getting there late.
The thing is you'll always have people getting there late for whatever circumstances (literally can be because they were born later).
The remaining that have to fight for the leftover space usually have to go above and beyond which means maybe that software engineer fighting for those last spots will have to earn a PhD in Computer Science and Physics to get those last jobs. This person would actually be even more deserving of those jobs than the people who got there first, but because they're simply part of the later crowd they won't get as far as the first adopter (who was born earlier, learned substantially less skills and credentials but had pick of the litter).