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Re: YouTube millionaires are not your friends

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Post by thunkshift1 » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 3:25 AM UTC

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #59

Just an aside, but I've noticed a lot of popular video trends among the younger generation revolve around watching somebody you don't really know, doing things I would I've done with friends. Reaction videos, eating things, hanging out and making jokes, making a stupid contest, trying some new experience... It's like there is an entire part of the children/teen population that have such a bland life they feel good wh…

My browsing of internet forums has led me to understand this issue as “living vicariously” among the youth. They have outsourced even the joy of experiencing new things in life to tech. And the tech companies are also getting paid in the process. Truly 21st century stuff.

Re: YouTube millionaires are not your friends

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Post by atoav » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 8:30 PM UTC

brutus5 wrote: post #138

atoav wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but pretending the word "fascism" has no definition that one could check the meaning of is something you can try on your social media where you preach to the choir, but on this platform such a simpleton strategy is not gonna fly. If you truly think Donald "I could shoot a guy on 5th avenue" Trump is not fascist, while Dem presidents are, you better being some examples here that meet an actual definition of the…

A definition including 14 signs every one of which is optional and vague-nonbinary -- is very similar to no definition.

So good that it is — in fact — not a definition and never meant to be one.

Definitions are too short for that kind of stuff anyways. Read some guy from the stone age the definition for any modern political system and they would not be able to imagine what it means in practise. These 14 points however make it somewhat tangible.

Eco also intended them as warning signs people can look at and check whether their own society (or parts thereof) are heading into fascism.

You know, completely tl;dr-unimportant stuff that you will totally not regret to have glossed over once your sons are sent into the meatgrinder of the Volkssturm, while your daughters are ordered to breed the next generation of disposable Übermensch /s

Re: YouTube millionaires are not your friends

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Post by kfrzcode » Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 6:47 AM UTC

esprehn wrote: post #140

kfrzcode wrote: post #70

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The path to modest generational wealth is pretty straightforward, pay off all your debts, don't borrow money, invest at least 15% of your income toward retirement in stable low-risk index funds or managed mutuals and leave it alone. Don't waste on big toys and you'll be a millionaire in a couple decades. It's really really that simple. If your income is not enough to achieve the above state loop, then you'll need to…

> It's not hard. Anyone in America with $35,000/yr is in the 1% of the world's economic strata. That doesn't take into account the vastly different cost of living across the world. Sure, 35k USD is a lot compared to some countries, but it's barely scraping by in most US metros. US wages have not kept pace with the increase in cost of living and goods and services for decades. Even if folks somehow managed to save 15%…

If those folks are only making $35k for 40 years they're losers with no impetus for self-growth or security. If they can make $35k a year they're capable enough to make $50k a year if they work hard to improve, start a business, create value.... if you don't, then enjoy your struggles. It's a dog eat dog world, right?