OTOH, it’s not like the vast majority of “real” jobs are productive in a real sense either. It feels like so much of the economy is propped up by bazinga AI tech bullshit, and everything else is service jobs or online store warehouse work for $12/hour and no career prospects.

Add on that our system is designed to have a constant pool of millions of people in a reserve army of labor… what are people supposed to do? Starting a business is not a guarantee of anything. Most fail. Work sucks. There’s a joke of a welfare system.

Getting work is harder than ever since we are competing worldwide and I’m sorry, but not everyone has a job that fits them. Some people just aren’t skilled enough to work in a modern company.

For a mediocre person without special talents or lots of capital day trading doesn’t sound that bad. This system is designed to fail the average person. No wonder the average person takes up socially-acceptable forms of gambling to get by.