No, just no.
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You just called the most successful businessman in the world an 'utterly inept businessman'.
Literally the wealthiest person in the world and all achieved through business success!
Defined and successfully delivering on multiple new markets, with a string of serial successes.
If having children, and time, is a big reward in life many of those who work harder and getting a worse deal than those who didn't bother.
That's out of fashion now, attacked by the caustic branches of feminism.
Women's attractiveness to men (and vice versa) is based strongly on societal expectations. Those societal expectations have been getting programmed by hollywood and media for so many decades that a massive amount or even majority has very unrealistic expectations.
The ones that seem free of this were lucky to have a really good role model of more healthy realistic relationships in their family.
In summary if we stopped programming people to have unrealistic expectations, they just might, maybe, don't you think .. form relationships more.
I think though I'm not as sure that this applies to women more then men, based on the stats showing that most women will reject most men but not the other way around (1).
1) Reference for this is the OkCupid blog which has been deleted but would still be available with searching.
And this in response to an article on men not standing up for their wives in life!!
Of course these days some people think the genders are not different, or whatever, some people think every strange though under the sun. I'm not speaking to those people they can believe whatever they want.
Have a read of 'Families and how survive them' for some detailed analysis of the roles of both genders in childrens development at various stages in their life.
Thats just nuts
At the same time the common alternatives of computer games and tiktok aren't going to build much of a future.
Then for those that are motivated or smart there's plenty of other pathways in Australia today.
Yes it's beyond possible, it's clear that's the case, otherwise there wouldn't be a shortage of plumbers given they can make money to live or even raise a family on.
But the sense of expectation has grown way beyond that, everyone wants to be an actor so they spend their time on tiktok, which is a winners market, and then the leftover masses that didn't build skills or work ethic complain about having to start at the bottom of the more 'realworld' pathways available.
For most of human history people just did what made them money to live, and were glad if they have the chance to do just that. Go and spend six months in a third world country and you will see this is true.
But it's also a matter of perspective. Here's a few additional perspectives, none of them the whole answer. But possibly provide insights and even hope for those who are most motivated.
Creating a house is a huge achievement, if you had to build it, and it's components, yourself, you would spend decades building a modern style house. It's unrealistic to expect that everyone can get this easily and early in life. Our mortgage system allows people to own earlier while paying it off to make that possible, but otherwise this is something that only a skilled person after decades of work would achieve.
Minimum wage isn't expected to be the maximum income achievement for someone who works hard, the idea is to find a niche where you can make more than minimum wage. This takes time of hard work, but it's patently still very possible in Australia, and much harder in many other countries overseas.
People who bought houses in the past had it easier in some ways, but lived a much much more basic standard of life. If you talk to average (ie not wealthy) people who bought houses from 50 to 20 years ago, it was incredibly hard for them, and involved sacrifice of pretty much everything to the mortgage for a decade of their life, while working hard and supporting a family. No overseas holidays, computers phones and entertainment, paying for kids sports programs, home delivery of meals etc etc. The standard of entitlement has raised incredibly decade on decade - in the past it was Expected to sacrifice to afford a home.
Some people still, despite the challenges were buying homes on minimum wage jobs in the last decade, before the current waves of price rises, and some probably are still buying now. But those people who did structured their life in a way to reduce every expense and save then buy modest places, away from conveniences and lifestyle areas. Similar sorts of sacrifices that people of the past would have done, just they are living in an era of inflated lifestyle expectations so they socially making more sacrifices even if the actual physical sacrifices are less in that they e.g. still have a phone and more entertainment than the past.
Of course individual situations and be quite different, but you are really bucking the trend in expecting the average company to show loyalty instead of respond to financial incentives.
There should be some better ways, or perhaps the best we can hope for is a middle ground, because the current social state around relationships is in my opinion as much responsible for the decline in first world childbirth rate as education is.
The current system encourages easy relationship dissolution, which is fine as long as children and alimony would recognize that.
However the child support laws are stacked to extract a mans livelihood to support the woman and children, while largely denying the man of the respect as a provider and satisfaction of his emotional and sexual needs in the family. This is a major problem that seems the other side of the coin to the old ways which kept relationships stuck together after love has gone or with abusive partners.
It's still a major problem, and it's in my opinion a root cause for the decline in the rate of families forming and having children.
But Elon Musk is unique, HE would still get full coverage. Journalists and influencers and the fanboys and outrage crowd would post his stuff to twitter for him lol.
I think the interview feedback you mentioned in your comment, not the original post, is further evidence of that about lacking 'deep' knowledge in an aspect of programming - this kind of thing takes time working on real challenges to accumulate, and for people who have spent 5-10-20 years accumulating hard won experience, the bar to consider someone a senior may be a bit higher than 2 years.
Of course this won't preclude you getting a great job, but it might be realistic to set your expectations in line with what others may consider also.
Isn't that scenario already happening, just with barely plausibly deniability?
Such as the massive engineered screen addictions pandemic that afflicts most of the world today, especially the younger generation that never knew any other way.
Or the mountains, rivers and oceans of e-waste. Or decline of physical and mental health from lack of natural physical activity.
There are benefits of course, but it's wise to keep a balanced view on the pros and the cons as well.
I don't buy in at those PEs, but I clearly should have as the track record has shown has shown. The future remains uncertain, his goals are still incredible to the point of being uncredible, and his delivery on those goals has been real and incredible. What a conundrum, no wonder people are talking about it so much. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In the meantime we have reusable space rockets and actual progress on a process of transformation away from ICEs.