Ryan Sean Adams (rsa.eth)
@rsa.eth
I think young people are believing a lie. There's this idea out there that younger generations have fewer opportunities than their parents. Not true. Not for the curious. There's been like 100,000,098 new opportunities created by AI in the past 12 months just waiting for someone like you to go do them. Don't look for your politicians to create economic opportunity - they will disappoint you. Look to technology - look to your own boundless curiosity - there's infinite whitespace here. You have more opportunities than your parents but they're not in factory jobs and pensions and college degrees and political speeches. They're on the internet. For the explorers. Go find them.
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Samuel ツ
@samuellhuber.eth
the limit being set is how molded people are by the "path" of get a career have a happy life, because it worked for 2 generations. and with that they don't see much beyond it and it has become "normal" therefore with media being a highlight spectical for virality in any form one feels overwhelmed leading to a feeling of less opportunity in general beyond the "i'll get a job" mantra though personally I don't think people in their 20s now will have much of a career in that sense of being able to afford homes and provide for 2-3 kid families with a job like their parents and grandparents have why? retirement debt (benefits yet to be paid) + need for inflation due to already existing debt so they won't have the wage growth or the retirement funds/payment to life that life meaning that the mantra being lived by for people needs to be closer to the 1950s/1940s then to the 2000s
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kripcat.eth
@kripcat.eth
I think the gripe is not so much that are no opportunities, it's the idea that in order to have a decent quality of life it's necessary to have this grind mindset. Not everyone is built to be an entrepreneur. Not everyone wants to sacrifice everything else in pursuit of financial success. But there is sense now that if you don't then you cannot afford the necessities of life. Grinding to seize opportunities should be for those striving for the top. You want to be the best and get all the rewards that come with it? You work hard for it. For people who would otherwise be content with a secure mid tier job, an average house, food on their plate and quality time with their family; grinding should not be the expectation. But it is increasingly the reality of merely getting by.
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AfroRick
@afrorick
The problem is that their information source (peers) don't know those jobs, those jobs aren't well marketed, and the parents aren't exactly good guides for those jobs either. So it will take a special type to really dig into this space. Kinda like when I first started in Computer Science... there was hardly a computer science. We were browsing in Mosaic and only the most determined would think the path to be something worth chasing. It's going to take a group of "leaders" to pioneer that space and be successful and share that success out to the broader population before people take the risk. There are so many influence sources that tell them that all these new opportunities are scams, not worth it, etc.
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agrimony↑🎩
@agrimony.eth
they have fewer traditional opportunities but more new ones. for every extra person they have to compete against, thats an extra consumer who craves new things to consume
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Aaron Blaisdell / ittybit 533
@aaronblaisdell
You are right, and it is our own agency that allows us to create opportunities from the environment we are in. Now, the perception of young people that they have fewer opportunities might stem from the K-12 (and even University?) education system that stunts the development of agency and intellect. We need more free-range childhoods, and less proscriptive schooling.
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Ivan P
@dayofniagra
Opportunity for what? Having a decent life and income or to get to the "top"? What does opportunity mean?
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AuntiePapi
@auntiepapi.eth
I agree with this. I think we’ve spent so much time being negative that we don’t see that there are more OPPs out there every day.
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AlHaste
@alhaste
I really agree. Noone will create opportunities for you out of thin air. It is up to each of us to seek them out. AI is a huge jump in technology that can be used in a myriad of ways. Discover what you love, improve it and you have your business right there
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