Two people discuss how social media has rebranded the stable job as failure, pushing people toward get-rich-quick courses instead. One notes that even those who achieve early wealth still feel empty, suggesting money and status symbols can't fill a deeper void.
30 years ago, going to college and getting a high 5-figure job, call it $70,000 to $100,000, was like the American dream. Yeah. Nowadays, you're technically a loser. That's how social media makes you feel. Yeah, you're a loser. And there's nothing wrong with jobs like that, but I think a lot of young guys especially are just like terrified of that outcome, and they just get sucked into these like rabbit holes on social media of like, you're a loser, buy my course, or whatever. I think it's at the end of the day, less than 1% of people actually—
so like people spend their whole life chasing these things thinking that's what they need. And the sad part is most people never actually get it, so they spend so much time chasing it and never get it. Yeah, there are certain people that get lucky early on, such as myself, where I got it early on and I realized like there's still a void that needs to be filled, and these cars and, and, you know, flashy things did not fill that void.
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