{"id":35463,"date":"2018-06-25T06:11:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T11:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35463"},"modified":"2018-06-25T06:11:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T11:11:19","slug":"dear-high-school-graduates-the-status-quo-solutions-enrich-the-few-at-your-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35463","title":{"rendered":"Dear High School Graduates: the Status Quo “Solutions” Enrich the Few at Your Expense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear High School Graduates: the Status Quo “Solutions” Enrich the Few at Your Expense<\/a><\/h3>\n

You deserve a realistic account of the economy you’re joining. <\/i><\/p>\n

Dear high school graduates: please glance at these charts before buying into the conventional life-course being promoted by the status quo.<\/b><\/p>\n

Here’s the summary: the status quo is pressuring you to accept its “solutions”: borrow mega-bucks to attend college, then buy a decaying bungalow or hastily constructed stucco box for $800,000 in a “desirable” city, pay sky-high income and property taxes on your earnings, and when the stress of all these crushing financial burdens ruins your health, well, we’ve got meds to “help” you–lots of meds at insane price points paid for by insurance– if you have “real” insurance without high deductibles, of course.<\/p>\n

Here’s the truth the status quo marketers don’t dare acknowledge: every one of these conventional “solutions” only makes the problem worse.<\/b> Student loan debt only makes your life harder, not easier, as the claimed “value” of a college degree is based on the distant past, not the present. The economy is changing fast and the conventional “solutions” no longer match the new realities. But don’t expect anyone profiting from the predatory profiteering higher-education cartel to admit this.<\/p>\n

The high cost of housing isn’t “solved” by buying in at the top of an unprecedented bubble.<\/b> Buying into bubbles only makes the problem worse, for all bubbles eventually pop.<\/p>\n

The “solution” to crushing levels of debt is not to borrow more just to prop up a rotten, corrupt, dysfunctional and self-serving status quo.<\/b> In effect, the young generations are being groomed to be the hosts for the parasitic classes that feed on young taxpayers, student loan debt-serfs, young buyers of bubble-priced housing, unaffordable sickcare “insurance” and all the rest of the status quo “solutions.”<\/p>\n

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Dear High School Graduates: the Status Quo “Solutions” Enrich the Few at Your Expense You deserve a realistic account of the economy you’re joining. Dear high school graduates: please glance at these charts before buying into the conventional life-course being promoted by the status quo. Here’s the summary: the status quo is pressuring you to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[127,5758,587,1302,20656],"class_list":["post-35463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-college","tag-of-two-minds","tag-status-quo","tag-status-quo-elite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35464,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35463\/revisions\/35464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}