So i just stumbled across this video posted on Youtube of a very articulate young women who got rejected from a bunch of colleges. She felt cheated and lied to so she vented her frustrations to the wall street journal which just so happened to publish it.
Most people dismiss her writings as those of an entitled white girl. Why? Because they're racists against whites really. But that's an issue for another blog.
The truth is she has every right to feel cheated. She like most other kids today are told their whole lives by their teachers and parents that all they have to do to succeed in life is do really well in school. This is horrible advice for the times we live in, it's not the teachers or parents fault though, they simply don't know any better. But the thing is these teachers and parents grew up in a different world and their advice is simply irrelevant, outdated and no longer works. Such advice would be laughable if it didn't set children up to fail so catastrophically.
You see in the world these teachers and parents grew up in there were "Help Wanted" signs on windows and they could just walk in talk to the owner and get a job sweeping floors in an afternoon. That job sweeping floors would come with healthcare, sick pay, four weeks holiday a year and a retirement fund.
The world was a piece of piss back then because every dollar a business produced required a large amount of input from a variety of skilled and unskilled workers. This meant your lazy, unmotivated parents could easily earn a comfortable secure living. That's simply not the case today, computers and machines can automate 95% of manual jobs. A single programmer can write code to run a whole production facility from start to finish and sell his products on a $10 .com address to the whole world. The whole business might only require a handful of people but making hundreds of millions of dollars, depending on the initial idea. Look at Facebook for example, it's a billion dollar company and has under 10,000 employees (around 7200 in june of 2014). This is increasingly becoming the trend, large sums of money made with very little need for manpower. The fact of the matter is that today, the money making potential of a business simply does not scale with employees like it used to. For a business in today's world employees are becoming more and more irrelevant.
Essentially there is no money in careers anymore as jobs are becoming increasingly obsolete.
The only job left for the average westerner is rapidly being reduce to working for yourself in some form of an online niche (Etsy, Youtube, blogging, etc). Not that this is a bad thing, it's actually good. People can now focus on making a living doing what they enjoy. The only problem is that people are not told this and the initial shock of trying to evolve into this world can be a difficult one that most may not overcome. But one thing is certain, anyone who doesn't move with the times and move away from the idea of a career will very soon be competing with Chinese and Indians willing to do their work for 5% of their wage.
This is advice anyone over 30 will think is ridiculous and advice that anyone under 30 will wish they were told earlier. It will be so glaringly obvious to the younger generation as they trudge from interview to interview competing with 1000's of equally qualified individuals that they will question how they didn't figure this out themselves earlier.
From this it is easy to understand why she feels so cheated. It does not make her entitled, it makes her a person who has been helplessly lead astray her whole life, to slaughter even, by the people she looked up to and trusted the most.
Most people dismiss her writings as those of an entitled white girl. Why? Because they're racists against whites really. But that's an issue for another blog.
The truth is she has every right to feel cheated. She like most other kids today are told their whole lives by their teachers and parents that all they have to do to succeed in life is do really well in school. This is horrible advice for the times we live in, it's not the teachers or parents fault though, they simply don't know any better. But the thing is these teachers and parents grew up in a different world and their advice is simply irrelevant, outdated and no longer works. Such advice would be laughable if it didn't set children up to fail so catastrophically.
You see in the world these teachers and parents grew up in there were "Help Wanted" signs on windows and they could just walk in talk to the owner and get a job sweeping floors in an afternoon. That job sweeping floors would come with healthcare, sick pay, four weeks holiday a year and a retirement fund.
The world was a piece of piss back then because every dollar a business produced required a large amount of input from a variety of skilled and unskilled workers. This meant your lazy, unmotivated parents could easily earn a comfortable secure living. That's simply not the case today, computers and machines can automate 95% of manual jobs. A single programmer can write code to run a whole production facility from start to finish and sell his products on a $10 .com address to the whole world. The whole business might only require a handful of people but making hundreds of millions of dollars, depending on the initial idea. Look at Facebook for example, it's a billion dollar company and has under 10,000 employees (around 7200 in june of 2014). This is increasingly becoming the trend, large sums of money made with very little need for manpower. The fact of the matter is that today, the money making potential of a business simply does not scale with employees like it used to. For a business in today's world employees are becoming more and more irrelevant.
Essentially there is no money in careers anymore as jobs are becoming increasingly obsolete.
The only job left for the average westerner is rapidly being reduce to working for yourself in some form of an online niche (Etsy, Youtube, blogging, etc). Not that this is a bad thing, it's actually good. People can now focus on making a living doing what they enjoy. The only problem is that people are not told this and the initial shock of trying to evolve into this world can be a difficult one that most may not overcome. But one thing is certain, anyone who doesn't move with the times and move away from the idea of a career will very soon be competing with Chinese and Indians willing to do their work for 5% of their wage.
This is advice anyone over 30 will think is ridiculous and advice that anyone under 30 will wish they were told earlier. It will be so glaringly obvious to the younger generation as they trudge from interview to interview competing with 1000's of equally qualified individuals that they will question how they didn't figure this out themselves earlier.
From this it is easy to understand why she feels so cheated. It does not make her entitled, it makes her a person who has been helplessly lead astray her whole life, to slaughter even, by the people she looked up to and trusted the most.
