day dreaming is fine dude.

being addicted to day dreaming as a replacement for other more healthy things… is not.

yeah there is something up with you. this is some sort of unhealthy obsessive coping mechanism. a crutch.

there is a problem here.

the vast majority of ‘educated’ people in America know shit about the constitution, and most of those that do probably know wrong things.

the only people who really know much about the constitution are constitutional scholars. and even they deeply disagree about various aspects of it.

I’ve interviewed people over the years in IT.

A lot of candidates are complete morons, regardless of experience or education. We hire the people who show competence in the interview… a lot of people simple have zero.

and in helping some friends/people over the years get job… usually the biggest issue is how they don’t actually properly apply or sell themselves. They blast out some generic shitty resume/cover letter for every job and just expect it will get them hired, instead of tactfully marketing themselves to the employer.

Applying to jobs is a skill, like any other.

People who have inherited wealth, won the lottery, or made a tremendously good stock investments.

the easiest way to make big money in any area… is have family/connections in that area.

most very successful people I’ve ever met… were simply riding the coattails of their family/parents. no matter what it is. if you want to be an engineer and your dad is already an engineer you have a huge leg up in engineering.

but nobody wants acknowledge this, esp in USA because we have this stupid myth of meritocracy. where you magially can do whatever you want and be really good at it. truth is very few people have that privileged. Most follow in the footsteps of their families.

because just like generational wealth, generational jobs skills/knowledge… compounds. your dad’s 30 years of experience in engineering if you want to be an engineer, is basically gives you a huge experience boost.

Everyone should have access to a free college education, but not everyone benefits from it and it certainly does not guarantee intelligence.

why do you think that would do anything?

i litereally taught those subjects for 3-4 years. Trust me. for most students its just another stupid class they don’t want to take, they won’t learn anything. maybe 10% of those enrolled will actually learn anything.

I mean, how many people do you know as adults that remember how to do do an integral even those they took Calculus?

No. it doesn’t.

stupidity is a choice people make, regardless of how well educated they are or not. many people actively choose to be stupid because it is easier than the effort of having to be smart. many smart people turn off their brains for everything outside of the workplace.

i used to teach college. half the students absolutely refused to learn or make an effort. they were not dumb, they were just lazy.

a lot of people it takes years to find a job. esp if they are picky. my brother has been unemployed for 3 years but only because he’s a snob and refuses to work for a non-elite company.

what happened to all the money your parents had from those houses?

I make 150K and to buy an affordable home that isn’t a teardown, say under 600K, you need a two hour commute from the downtown area. Anything inside an hour of the downtown is more like 800K+ and being bought up by people with family money or 300-400K yearly incomes. someone making 45K in my city needs to live multiple people to a bedroom to afford rent.

But it’s all about where you live and the incomes. Where I live 150K income puts you only in the top 20% of households. And I don’t have family money backing me like most of my peers in the housing market. Most of my friends got 100-200K gifts from family to buy their homes.

seriously. even single a 60 hour workweek is going to leave you with zero time to take care of yourself, let alone children.

most people i have known doing 60 hour weeks are the type who are eating every meal out or getting ubereats everynight, and probably outsourcing their laundry/cleaning, etc.

20 somethings think 30+ is forever away.

has majorly spilled over into real life as well. way too many anxious control freaks these days, not enough chill people who are willing to listen and learn.

people.

people don’t like openness and freedom. it’s scary. they prefer to be coddled by walled gardens and curated experiences that make sure they don’t come across anything they find unpleasant or disagreeable.

most people are very happy to be spoonfed bias-confirming garbage their entire life, and re-regurgitating it out again. the open internet is a huge threat to those people.

it’s oblivion in space.

New monitors: Maybe my eyes suck, but my set of two 21-inch LCD monitors from 2005 is still going strong

Your eyes don’t suck. You just want to abuse them for some reason. Modern display tech is way easier on your eyes.

that isn’t how reality works.

it’s actually really not hard if you stop seeing validation from other people and seek it from yourself.

what about a radical lifestyle adjustment.