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People used to do random things for long stretches of their life. Presidents did stints as dockworkers in their 20s and rural teachers in their 30s Today, if you're not published in reputable journals in HS and did the right internships in college, you may as well kill yourself

The declining rate of profit has forced capitalists to financialize everything and destroy anything that hinders their futile attempt to squeeze drops of blood out of a stone.

TRPF + rentier economics + it has never applied to the poorer majority in economies that did not have a development boom.

Stories like Harrison Ford who quit acting and worked as a carpenter for years before being cast by Lucas would never exist today. A guy with the same background as Harrison would get laughed out of any casting room even by a rookie director straight of film school

The proof in the pudding is that the retarded MAGATs on this forum (at least 80% of them) would have trouble getting a C- in a topology class or even understanding Bayesian statistics but were privileged / "lucky" enough to acquire enough money so they can **** in this cesspool every day.