25 years old and deep in debt

[CountDeMoney]

That's an unfortunate perspective. 

And here we were all this time, trying so hard not to be England.

[DGuller]

Video on how automation will replace most human jobs including e.g. a lot of lawyers, doctors and white collar workers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

Damn. 

[Ideologue]

Video on how automation will replace most human jobs including e.g. a lot of lawyers, doctors and white collar workers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

I mean, it's basically what I've been saying for years, but it's put together in a more terrifying manner.

[CountDeMoney]

Baltimore millennials creatively forge their own career path
Many are eschewing the 9-to-5 grind for creative self-employment

Last winter, Rachel Millman began searching for a home in Baltimore. She combed through listings online, but the work of narrowing down her search based on static images became tedious. What if, instead, she could take a video tour through each house, and use a slightly more dynamic medium to decide whether to schedule an in-person tour?

When Millman closed on her new home in Canton this year, having already pitched her idea to a number of receptive real estate agents she had met along the way, she knew this was the right moment. She quit her full-time magazine job of the last two years and, at age 25, founded Reel Estate Media, a company that works with real estate agents in the area to record walk-through videos of houses for sale and video profiles for the agents themselves. As of now, she's the only employee.

"I've been thinking of starting my own company pretty much since I graduated from college," says Millman, who graduated in May 2011 after studying electronic media and film at Towson University. "I thought: 'I'm young. Now's the time,' and I just decided to do it, probably against the better judgment of a lot of people."

While Millman wouldn't have purchased a house if she were paying for it entirely on her own — she and her fiance, a financial services adviser, are moving in together — her decision to forgo the stability of a full-time job with a guaranteed paycheck is one that mirrors a nationwide trend among the millennial generation, the cohort of roughly 73 million Americans born in the 1980s and 1990s who are loosely defined as being between the ages of 18 and 34 today. More millennials are creating their own jobs, either as a response to a continually crummy economy in which they can't find work, or because they would rather be their own bosses and run their own businesses.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bthesite/bs-b-0618-cover-millennial-jobs-20140617,0,1610660.story

It's gotta be nice to be able to sell your snatch at 25--to a financial services adviser, no less--for the security needed to, wheee! Let's start my own company! on a whim.  And in Canton, the home of the $400,000 row house. 

That's where you've failed, Ide.  You're still young, get out there and shake dat ass for a financial services adviser.  Do it while you're still thin.

[Ideologue]

I'm not as thin as I'd like to be.  Anyway, we all know damned well that but for the tip-top one-percenters in the sexual market, men can't sell their bodies to women.  That's why unalloyed feminism that doesn't recognize female privilege is a fucking joke, as well as why nine out of every ten male children should either be aborted or turned gay with a synthetic hormone bath in the womb.

[CountDeMoney]

A 24 year old woman was arrested today for smothering her 1 year old boy and 3 year old daughter down the road in Cheverly.  I mean, sure you have to test early for STEM aptitude, but c'mon, give them a chance at it first. 

[Ideologue]

Heh.

Anyway, I take it back.  That was the old, nihilistic Ide talking.  I'm the new, humanist Ide, who likes people and thinks they're all individuals with their own pains and hopes and dreams and irreplaceable, invaluable qualities.  WWJD?  Not make inflammatory statements that border on gender essentialism, self-loathing, and sour grapes.

[CountDeMoney]

Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard.

[Valmy]

Video on how automation will replace most human jobs including e.g. a lot of lawyers, doctors and white collar workers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

That is that CGPGrey video isn't it?  Yeah this is going to require a big societal shift since the whole purpose of government and civilization and all that is to mobilize human labor...if there is no huge need for human labor then what?  Of course the powers might not give a shit because that will not impact them and they can keep the people down with their mighty security bots.  So either paradise or dystopia around the bend.

This video did not really address the huge problem of security and hacking and viruses and all of that.  My computer gets shit on it all the time, what happens when the computer driving your car gets hacked into?  Gamer nerds could have murdered Anita Sarkeesian a long time ago that way.

[Valmy]

I'm not as thin as I'd like to be.  Anyway, we all know damned well that but for the tip-top one-percenters in the sexual market, men can't sell their bodies to women.  That's why unalloyed feminism that doesn't recognize female privilege is a fucking joke, as well as why nine out of every ten male children should either be aborted or turned gay with a synthetic hormone bath in the womb.

Ide the MRA?  Not sure I like this look on you.

Remember when we discussed the socialist paradise that will break out when robots do all the shit jobs way back in like 2004?  We could be nearly there.  We just need somebody to lead the revolution.

[CountDeMoney]

Gamer nerds could have murdered Anita Sarkeesian a long time ago that way.

 

10 Cls
20 Disable air bag
30 Sleep
40 End

[Ideologue]

I'm not as thin as I'd like to be.  Anyway, we all know damned well that but for the tip-top one-percenters in the sexual market, men can't sell their bodies to women.  That's why unalloyed feminism that doesn't recognize female privilege is a fucking joke, as well as why nine out of every ten male children should either be aborted or turned gay with a synthetic hormone bath in the womb.

Ide the MRA?  Not sure I like this look on you.

Remember when we discussed the socialist paradise that will break out when robots do all the shit jobs way back in like 2004?  We could be nearly there.  We just need somebody to lead the revolution.

In all seriousness--because I was being a little schtickish, as I always hope is obvious when I am, but rarely seems to be--I think there is a serious problem with some modern expressions of feminism, that I haven't been able to articulate yet without reference to MRA-sounding hogwash.  It boils down to the fact that I think there is such a thing as female privilege, that has only been very lightly addressed in gender political circles.  One aspect of that privilege is that a fair number of women can still choose to live by their looks alone, without reference to strength, intelligence, or financial or social capital.  Women are also not feared (even if I understand why men are, and this is why I believe a pervasive surveillance state is a necessary aspect of a perfect society).  Most women are also afforded--I think--a far greater degree of validation for just existing than men are, but this may be a serious personal problem I alone experience.  Finally, feminist rhetoric can very easily descend into misandry, and either no one cares, or no one can speak against it without being called a misogynist; irreproachable control over a conversation is the definition of privilege.

I think there is also insufficient criticism or analysis of standard female sexual desires, whereas there is a wealth of criticism of men's (I'm supposedly pro-anorexia, for example).  Partly this is a failure of the overall culture to teach women to understand themselves and self-criticize or at least pursue their aims in an enlightened way, but from an outside viewpoint it's no wonder that one woman's endless pursuit of big, strong, violent men results in black eyes and rapes; nor is it any wonder another woman's pursuit of rich men results in spiritual desolation.  Feminism decries this, but because men are the patent villains in these stories, any drives that send a woman toward ruin in the first place are essentially denied, and cast into the fire as "victim blaming."

But like I said, it's best that I pretend--or somehow legitimately convince myself--that these are delusions, because no one wants to hear it, not even me.

For the record, I think male privilege exists too and is absolutely a bigger problem overall.  (Compared to race and class privilege, of course, gender politics is close to solved in the First World--the viciousness of our Eliot Rodgers aside--though compared to race and class privilege, squaring the fucking circle is close to solved, too.)

[CountDeMoney]

Most women are also afforded--I think--a far greater degree of validation for just existing than men are, but this may be a serious personal problem I alone experience.

LOL, in a nation where they've had the vote for less than 100 years, still encounter harassment and prejudice on a daily basis in the workplace while statistically earning less, and still to this day have to fight for the legal control of their own reproductive systems, I'd say it's just you.

Meh, all things considered, if there's a "female privilege", I'd say they've earned it by now. 

But we all know it's really about projecting your dating and intimacy hang-ups, so it's OK, buddy.

[Ideologue]

Isn't it actually the case that women earn more than men except in top professions (where there very much is, and obviously, a nasty patriarchal thing happening).  I mean, this is the result you'd expect when a vastly greater proportion of men are locked the fuck up or have criminal records, and a greater proportion of women drop out of their careers for a few years to be moms, because they have this choice.

Anyway, that's not the kind of validation I meant, and yes, probably.

[Jacob]

I'm not as thin as I'd like to be.  Anyway, we all know damned well that but for the tip-top one-percenters in the sexual market, men can't sell their bodies to women.  That's why unalloyed feminism that doesn't recognize female privilege is a fucking joke, as well as why nine out of every ten male children should either be aborted or turned gay with a synthetic hormone bath in the womb.

Don't go down this path, Ide.