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If you're going to dump it at the side of the road, why bag it?

These types of "Day X of Y until I forget" posts used to piss me off on Reddit, but here I'm just glad someone is providing content.

It's just an anecdote, but I've experienced a lot of people saying "I'd vote for a dead dog over Trump", who for some reason still wouldn't back a democrat that didn't look like and sound like a mummy.

Reddit tier comment

24 hours? I don't thinks I've had a full belly laugh in 24 years.

I don't disagree with what you're saying, but whether you live in a capitalist, socialist, communist or what ever other types of economic systems are available, you need to be intellectually honest about what types of workers the society needs to be able thrive.

How many historians do you want qualified before you would say, "maybe we should incentivise people in to things like medicine or engineering", a hundred thousand, a million?

Of course history is important, but there's clearly a sensible limit to how many job opportunities there are for curators, archeologists, researchers, teachers etc.

In the UK, more or less fifty percent of young people have a uni level of education but there are not fifty percent of vacant jobs that require a degree level education. It might be absolute lovely that my barista has a history degree, but they could have joined the workforce several years earlier, have dozens of thousands pounds less in debt and still had the opportunity to study history in their own time.

To be fair, how many historians etc do you need to qualify every year?

What's the point of studying something for years, getting in to dozens of thousands in student debt, potentially getting near the top of your field and then having to go work in a Starbucks because there are so few vacancies in your field?

I agree that these degrees are nice to have, but we should be honest with students in regards to the sort of lifestyle they can expect after they qualify.

I went to college and have worked a middle class job since I was 17. Believe me, being smart has nothing to do with it, I'd say less than five percent of people I've worked with were "smart", the rest are just doing the bare minimum to not get sacked.

What ever you're lacking in knowledge and skills can be made up for by just being keen.

I admit that money does help, unfortunately, the mobility of classes has been in decline for decades now.

Your advice is decent except the start steroids bit.

A man working an average job used to earn enough to buy an average house and comfortably support his wife and kids.

Now you need two people in full-time work just to pay rent to the landlord.

The problem is inequality of wealth and the solution is make work pay.

Two summers ago it reached 40°C in fucking Scotland.

I unironically bought some kaftans for my wardrobe because I was fucking dying in jeans and t-shirt.

Thanks! $200 sounds expensive but probably very worth it to save you from tinnitus or from going deaf.