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Ya but I’m 28 and have had enough with these contractions. For Christ sake can I get a sane decade so I can actually build a career. :)

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its unlikely that will happen. If you read Arrighi, his hegemonic cycle narrative says that the interregnum between two hegemons is decades of chaos as the system reorganises. We seem to be heading for a US to China transition.

The last transition was British Empire to US and that was 1900-1945.

We can only hope for something better.

Yay.

I mean you can always be a farrier, lineman, septic sumper, cobbler etc…

What’s stopping you from being a welder or dentist?

I feel like this is a joke but honest answer: I worked ocean rescue for 4 years then lived with some tech folks in sf who were making literally 5-10x my salary.

What’s stopping me? Probably some combo of wanting to one day afford a home and a family without having to move to Memphis and the a sense that I’d get bored as a welder and therefore be a bad one.

Man, septic pumper tho…

> some tech folks in sf who were making literally 5-10x my salary

Don't worry. It's temporary.

Not a joke, I tried to start a trash company and be a handler on the back, but unfortunately my epilepsy got in the way

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