/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>10877869
Look at the range of decisions available to you, and compare them to potential outcomes of joining the labor force. Associate values and probabilities to each. If you don't make an informed choice now, you will regret it in the future.

There are too many axis of scams going on at the same time. At some point it does get circular because we're trapped in our own meme bubble.
> no easy value-to-labor conversion
But this is a serious problem. Those metrics apply to the truck loader, but not to the intellectual. Let's say that part of the job of the intellectual could makes life harder for the blue collar worker even if he managed to solve what he saw as inefficiencies. If the intellectual makes a mistake that harms the grunt, he may not be easily punished, but the grunt may keep seeing that he's having a harder time affording things he could. The intellectual may even find metrics that make him look good after a fuckup. The grunt doesn't know what value-to-labor means, but he knows something isn't right and this can lead to serious problems keeping society so to say united (not only because of that, politics, media...) because people start harboring grudges. The point I think I want to make is that just because a job is being paid well doesn't mean it's benign to society, or that what's benign is what's rewarded best economically. Don't understand this as me saying that it's better if we're all picking our own tomatoes or that people with money should be resented, but that there are powerful people with agendas and what they really want is complete obedience. And just like it's easier to see why what a tomatopicker does is good, it's much harder to accept that the intellectuals have the best interest of the tomatopicker as a priority. There are jobs like cops, lawyers... that don't have great stereotypes but it's probably a good idea to have them, even if sometimes they can abuse their powers and cause harm.