I recently graduated in CS with a focus in Cyber Security and thanks to the absolute state of things, I’ve unironically thought about building a series of solar generators and learning how to grow/raise something sellable because the jobs offered in this field are horrifying. I’d rather give up some comfort but feel fulfilled than work in a soulless job and have a nice refrigerator.
@@stackspace Go for it, there's a small (for now) but significant market for off-grid people who would love to buy local for stuff like generators and power tools from someone they can depend on VS buying from a nameless Chinese factory
Tree guys are invaluable esp with so many people buying raw land. Not everyone can clear trees off of their property and would gladly pay for someone to do it for em
Wagecucking is actually not a boomer thing per se. I don't really know how it was in America, but in Europe before WW1 and WW2 the vast majority of people worked as Wagecucks. During and after the industrialisation (1800-1914) the factories had massive amounts of workers, controlled by a minority of owners. I'd argue that these workers were, in fact, wagecucks. They really had no choice but to work under terrible conditions. If we look at the time before the industrialisation (which are the middle ages), i'll grant you that the people weren't wagecucks. Instead, they were basically slaves; they had to work on their farms, not only for themselves but also to sustain their lords. (Not to say that the later and present wagecucks aren't slaves; they arguably are slaves but in a more subtle way at least) In America things might have been a bit different at first (settelers working their farms and stuff, eventually building small-scale communities where some of them could start family-buinesses; no greedy lords like in europe). But when industrialisation kicked in and factories were built, a large number of people became wagecucks. All in all I find your view of the past a bit romanticised. I agree with you on the point that at the moment we might see a decrease in wage labour, at least in the western world. I think that this is due to the fact that outsourcing of wage labour into less developed countries will increase (The west did a pretty good job of using people in asia for cheap work, but the capitalist will say "why stop there?" Think of the vast numbers of people in africa and south america that are not yet working in sweatshops). This and the fact that the population of western countries is in decline will make wage labour in the west less effective, which means that more people in the west will need to pursue more entrepreneur-ish careers. I conclude that the industialisation has been a disaster for the human race but things were already pretty bad before. We really need to move into a direction where more people lead independent lives, but the vision I described where this is achieved through outsourcing of manual work into third-world countries is the wrong way in my opinion.
The reason why (american) boomers don't understand how the world works is because their education system genuinely doesnt teach anything that isn't about americans or american revolution. That's how you get dumb bullshit like "social democracy means rich communists" and "the red pill means faschism, exept now that wachowskis are sisters because gay nazis are the good nazis". As itself, who cares what the 'Muricans are doing exept that due to internet the woke is spreading to ALL western countries. And yes, comrade, i heard the dogwhistle, i know only dogs hear dogwhistle, we're both totally ironic Zizek fans, wink. Btw isn't it kind of funny that only country where communism really took off was in the one country where serfdom survived the industrialization? oh right, workers just spontaneously rise up. I mean, soviets and north koreans WERE pretty intimitading before they couldn't no longer hide how ridiculously stagnant and corrupt they were. I wonder if there were any other political system where ridiculously stagnant and corrupt self-declared absolute political authority caused a long dark period of history where it expanded where it could, and in hindsight quite inevitably collapsed, exept those couple countries where it is kept around in name only. Wacky thoughts huh?
At least in 1800-1914 (actually, 1911) we had real currency. And you actually made enough money to buy land and a house by just doing a "wageslave" job
yeah I found this channel a few days ago and a few videos in the guys just full of shit, its just Uncle Ted polemics without any solutions. But also hypocritical cuz he's using computers and promoting crypto schemes while shit talking technology and "modern" society. Ok buddy, take a step back.
This is something that's actually very strange for me to think about. I just graduated from college and got a great job, but I realized that outside of work I have no expectations on me. No deadlines, no due dates. All my life I've had school and a "next step" that's right there visible. Now I am an adult and it's overdue for me to pick my own next steps. (Land, marriage, etc) But it is a very weird mental shift. It's no longer "what do I have to do next" it's "what do I want to do next" or "What would be beneficial for me to do next". I thought about it and I have a few paths that could be ahead but I never have really picked which path I want to go down before besides "which degree do you want" and that I knew for a long time so I haven't had flexibility or unknowns in my life's path before. It's very refreshing and also very weird. I post this not as a "wow look what I can do" but as a way for other people my age to think about what Luke posted in a different way. It's not that you have to go out there and make a name for yourself or do some super hard thing, it's that you just have to decide 1) What you want and 2) How to get it yourself. And you're more than equipped to do so! Just pick small things at first and get it going some momentum going. I think my zoomer generation just legitimately isn't used to making any decisions for themselves. I know I'm not! It's a very foreign concept to me to have multiple paths available in life. It sure is a lot of fun though!! So go out there and make some decisions for yourself! Learn to ask for forgiveness rather than permission if you have to.
I am from the Boomer generation (42 yrs in IT). Now retired. The very question you are asking in this thread will lead you to an answer, which may have to be revised several times in your lifetime. Since you can ask this question now to yourself, will lead you to the answer!!!
Who says we need to do or plan anything? It is in a format or protocol of some sorts with a job. It's better to focus on that. Another job will be based on the first. The third will be based on the previous ones. You will get women, land and housing easily with jobs. You won't become a rock star or something that way. I know because I didn't think and followed my heart or something. The beginning started like that (education, job) and it wasn't me at all. It should have been coding and it wasn't. Life is not about speculating and planning everything. Luke don't get it that some of us can jump around freely but it's not for all. It takes something and cost a lot to not have a line of jobs to show for some other good job. Maybe, just maybe, he liked all the jobs he had and didn't think so much about that he generated CV and crap himself and doesn't know anything about being an adult in the super egg he lives in.
I’m late millennial and totally relate with your comment. Lately I am questioning myself. Who am I? What I really like? What I was influenced to like? I pushed away my friends to try to find an answer. Got some
plan for financial independence retire early, and that will open even more doors for you (even if u dont actually retire). learn critical skills/knowledge areas while in the corporate cube, maximize your options.
My guardians passed when I was 14 I started taking care of myself at that age and had to grow up quick. Since then I’ve been very strong headed in my own ways of being productive and how things should get done to be successful. Your comment really puts it into perspective how regular people might think, I appreciate you helping me understand.
I stopped caring about money because I realized that I'm not a consoomer, so I don't need that much, that living a healthy lifestyle is actually much cheaper than what most people do, and that doing things without money is more interesting anyway. Getting things for free and fixing them is pretty cool. You only really need a lot of money if you are weak and addicted to new garbage.
Computers are the best example. You don't need a new Rysen CPU with the latest Titan GPU that's all being water cooled through your RGB rig that costed quad digits to have a usable computer. For me, any laptop or desktop released in the mid to late 2000s with Linux installed is more then usable now, and I find these in the trash all the time. You won't be able to play new games or play 4K videos, but new games are trash and 4K is unnecessarily.
@@thepuzzlemaster64 Pretty much. 4K is a huge waste of space. I tend to go for 720p, and 480p for old things that I would watch on my CRT (that I got for free). I also almost only play games on emulators at this point, so any computer is fine for that, even my 2007 desktop. The newest game that I consider one of my favorites is Dark Souls, and even my GPU that was released in 2014 is overkill for that, and probably still runs current games anyway. Even for a source-based distribution like Gentoo, my FX-8300 (2012) is more than enough. The fact that people treat technology as disposable and always need to have the newest latest thing just makes things cheaper for someone like me. Even all the most expensive things I want are old anyway, actually. Also, one of the biggest ways to save money is on cars. NormalFRIENDS are addicted as hell to new cars. They can't stand the idea of buying used. It hurts their pride, and doesn't satisfy their status addictions. They can't live without a car loan. That's where you come in, you take advantage of that. You learn about buying cars and you take a good one directly from them for a good price. Maybe you can even buy two just in case something goes wrong, so you can try to fix them yourself, and then you acquire another new skill.
This can relate to my entire life. I have graduated with a Commerce degree and ended up working as a digital marketing/SEO marketing idiot under the most irritating boss you will ever have. I hated my job and then I decided to quit my job. My father was a carpenter and I really love the way he work/enjoy his job. I started learning carpentry at the age of 35 and now I'm freelance carpenter. Now, I'm my own. I'm not an "EMPLOYEEE". No boss. I'm the boss. I'm not making that much money I used to make when I was a digital marketer. But, I don't care. I'm slowly becoming a minimalist .
I've never had any respect for the public education system. College in particular is a waste of time and money as far as learning skills goes. I'm getting the cheapest computer engineering degree I can get (a local community college), and that's mainly just so I can increase my pay grade a little so I can work towards my 7yr retirement / entrepeneurship plan. Doing what I love for the sake of personal enjoyment, not to pay bills or put food on the table.
@@joey199412 I’m working through it as we speak (I hate it lol). But stories like that inspire me, how hard was computer science? I’m currently doing nursing!
I'm currently in a public highschool in NZ. I hate it. S*icidal as cause of it. It's just constant cucking to a system that forces you to have all your attention on what it wants, with not time for anything else. All for mostly useless skills like writing essays on novels. Even for 'useful' subjects like math, its mostly a waste of time. With all the resources online I can (And have. At old schools) learn through that. Its more efficient (You waste so much time in school) and you can learn in a way where you aren't a cuck to the 'teacher' in front, and don't want to k* yourself. Plus, when I have learnt stuff online or through family friends or others, I actually enjoy it, and as a consequence learn better. One of my friends is looking at getting an apprenticeship at a bunch of car dealerships around town. (He's been getting accepted so has choice) The only thing will be that he won't have a 'highschool education'. Doesn't need it. Smart as, especially on mechanics and such. Learned almost entirely through family, friends and online. Other friends who are still in the system only ever talk about school this or that. Their whole life is school. It's depressing and frustrating as. I hope to escape. Perhaps to those GED's I have heard about and go to seminary or something. One of the few things I enjoy that hasn't been corrupted by school. God. Please pray for me.
Even in 90s in eastern europe; majority of the population was self-sufficient - their participation in the general economy was limited to obtaining industrial manufactured products/tools - usually in exchange for services/crops.
I have been watching your videos for some time and after watching this I instantly subscribed. Many channels take up the mainstream views i.e normie videos they are. Your stance on freedom is very unique.Lot of people nowadays think they are free, free to do anything but the huge corporate sharks will never allow such a thing to happen.
The romanticism of this story is truly hart warming. In fact, my father, my grandfathers and almost all my ancestors were employees of some sort. And I'm not the only one. The only thing that really changed is the level of knowledge required to make a living wage. My grandfathers had no education, but they could buy a house and go on vacation with a family of six children. My father is a boomer who needed medium level skills to do the same. My parents now take seven international vacation trips a year. My friends are all university graduates and they need double incomes to buy a smaller house that is further away from their work. Boomers did not invent this stuff. They just ruined it for the rest of us.
How did boomers ruin it? Technological advancement is what has made people more redundant. Nowadays society doesn’t need your labor as much. Therefore you’re left to fend for yourself. I wouldn’t be surprised to find more people moving to a pre-industrial homesteading lifestyle.
My mom pushed me all my life to go through this stupid path and I'm paying dearly for it with student loans I can't pay, and now I'm self-teaching the stuff 'art school' failed to teach me.
she pushed you into art school and taking out loans for that? or she said art school would contribute to success in the entertainment (oops..art) world? wow, bad mom!
@DJTripleThreat78 smart! 3 squares a day, a roof over your head, education opportunities, and it will give you a boost-up if you apply for government jobs in the future (big corporate jobs too!).
that's entirely on you for choosing the wrong art school to attend. had you gone to vienna academy of fine arts, you would really have learned quite a few important life-lessons.
When the boomers were going to college not many people got college degrees, so people who had them were in high demand. Thats why they told their kids to get them. But now the market is saturated. In the past before technology a ton of people were needed, and now much less people are needed to produce food..ect but the country has 3x the population as 1900
But you have to be a "hyper-alpha go getter" if you want to make it on your own. >There is no such thing as a big fish in a small pond. The moment you actually make it big by being in a place without big companies, that is an invitation for big companies to pour their gigantic resources into driving you out of business. >Most average people will have an average level of talent at doing stuff. Take your example about woodworking. You may create everything you need, but it is going to have a piece junk quality compared to stuff designed by professionals and mass produced with precise and very $$$ expensive equipment. I agree that not everyone can be a successful bug man but don't over sell it. You are essentially learning to make the most out of being poor and marginalized, and the so called "independence" is coping for not being able to make it big (even if the average person really wanted it).
"precision" in stamped sheet metal and routed wood lol Handmade stuff will literally have better fit and finish. It takes time while a machine does it in seconds. You can't outfit a whole IKEA store with your models but they'll probably better built. I have IKEA furniture. It's useful and practical, but fragile. If the back panel of my shoe drawers were any thinner, they'd be cardboard.
For those struggling to gain traction, I recommend *lists*. You can't keep your plans all in your head. They'll disappear, warp, and change constantly. Start with life goals. Time frames don't have to be super specific. Next write goals for the next year or two. Write down what you need to do this month to meet your goals. Write down what you need to do this week to meet your goals. Write down what you need to do today to meet your goals. No step is too small to add to your daily list. Review and add to your list every day. Make a whole new daily list for tomorrow. For someone with ADHD, it's like magic.
I can get behind the difficulty point. Even with an engineering degree, getting a job is basically impossible in this economy. Yet somehow I can still make money by designing and building things for local businesses, as an unemployed bum. Mostly using skills I've learned on my own or from my dad.
So does that mean that all my hobby jobs that keep popping-up in my head (sewing, repearing trashed computers, programming, animating, painting, drawing) are actually good outside the boomer economy? If that's true then I've got a goldmine of skills that I've just been putting-off for years.
@@alejandrosrwebmaster "You have to offer things people are willing to pay for it." Well being an employee is kinda this. You're selling your work to someone who's willing to buy it
Yes the internet makes it incredibly easy to find someone who wants to pay you for something too. You don't even need to make a business or do it through a special platform.
Ideally you'll want to just focus on a few that are closely related, then hobbies become more of a specialized skill set that can lead to a business, which is generally how successful businesses start by being ran by someone who has enthusiasm for the field and not just money. creating value leads to money, don't forget the order.
@@egg5474 My plan is to try-out everything that I think would suit me (preferably two at a time), then if I feel like a hobby isn't as good as I thought, I get rid of it and try a new one. I keep doing this until I find my match, then I'll proceed to focus on it until I feel like I don't need a job anymore. At the moment I live in an apartment close to an e-waste dump that I can pick through (surprising find!). What I can do is start repairing old laptops and computers then sell them online for a bit of profit. I've also fallen in love with Bob Ross and there's a store no too far away that sell Bob Ross painting products, so I could try-out my painting skills as well.
Planned the boomer route but thankfully I've come up with a great alternative - get rejected after every interview so you have to make money your own way.
People in my age group on average actively refuse to do "gig" work. Around when you put this video out my group was just hitting our 20's and I effectively asked "Hey so Sh*t's F#cked, We're all unemployed now, How about I filter through Craigslist for things you(s) could do while I'm looking for stuff I can do" and the immediate response was "how about you get a job." That came from my supposedly entrepreneurial friends. The Domestication runs deep and it hurts.
The domestication has worked so well that there's no new domestication taking place, the idea of getting a job is just so ingrained that it's a prerequisite to social acceptance
This is good advice. I see videos from people like networkchuck who encourage people to learn certain skills like AWS or Linux because they can make a lot of money working for corporations maintaining their servers or whatever - it pisses me off. In contrast, luke is quite the opposite and aligns nicely with my idea of life and also his disdain for employment makes it better. Keep doing what youre doing man. If possible make a video about writing pkgbuilds and compiling programs from source.
That abomination always poked me the wrong way. I fully agree, learn skills you need to be successful, not to make someone else profitable. They name the price, that isn't how this works.
There are a lot of good skills and crafts that you can do that lead to much more independence, and still are part of the "system", being an electrician or carpenter as you said are examples. If you get your CDL then it's not a long path to own your own rig and drive for the contracts you want to do. Just calling people "wage cucks" ignores the fact that people may need to take work that isn't ideal to survive. You can't set yourself up overnight. But most jobs treat people as disposable, because that's what they are for the system. The antidote is treating the system as disposable, use it and then abandon it when you get a real chance, instead of the other way around.
Learning skills they can't take away from you is such an underrated point. Remember how Microsoft changes their entire stack almost every 4 to 6 years, Linux doesn't. Linux matures and as it matures you mature with it and you master it as well. Nobody can take the skills you have away when the software is open source. Imagine mastering powershell and then 2 years later they drop it in favor of bash 😂
I think schools are to blame. They should teach people to think for themselves but instead they just teach people to be obedient little workers. Any wonder they want to replace their teacher with a boss?
Planting a garden is like printing your own money but even better. Honestly just buy heirloom and organic tomatoes from the store, save the seeds and start right there
Whats crazy is people are STILL going to college thinking their degrees will come with a swift entrance into "35 years at the same job, a nice retirement package, and of course, the nice watch"... whats sad is a lot of people could be using their insanely priced tuition fees on something way better suited for the modern era and for their own personality and work style. A good skill to pick up is organic gardening. You are able to make your own food in the process and the quality is better than even USDA organic produce in the shops that you pay half your ass for. At the very worst, you have a self made food source. At the very best, you can make a very profitable business out of it. Our schools need healthier food options and you could make a KILLING selling locally grown organic produce for the kids' lunches. Thats the kinda change we need around the great USA. Hell, then open up private clinics for kids and their parents to get taught on how to grow their own food. Charge a few bucks a person... (hands rubbing together)
My mother told me I should just buy a gaming PC instead of building because its more economical to just work those hours for my wage There's a genuine lack of intellectual curiosity in that, a trusting of the system
She may not be wrong if you make a decent wage. However, the real problem with that attitude is that it disincentivizes you from learning anything other than what you do for your job.
The only thing I would disagree with is that if job is interesting and HR people aren't as annoying, then being an employee can be fun. And, depending on a country, you barely have to work overtime if at all. I would not go as far as calling that wage-slaving, provided pay is decent.
A bunch of European languages (French, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Romanian) evolved directly from Latin. You would be surprised how many words even in English are derived from Latin. So I guess knowing Latin is like a good foundation for understanding modern European languages in general.
@@atypicalambience3487 He wasn't saying it earned him money, but rather that it enriched him personally. If you can only understand the value of a skill in economic terms you're falling into the consoomer wagecuck mindset. lukesmith.xyz/articles/latin
Yes, normal people were really free in the medieval Times and Roman times.... Never forced nor depending on their rulers... That was indeed the 'Roman dream' of all people
IMO all you need is what you need NOW. Just choose a project for yourself. Whether it's Foss development or an Open Movie or a book, comics, music... Whatever. And do this most of the time. Unpaid. Un-heard of. And have a dish washing job somewhere for 2 days a week to pay rent and eat a potato a day. That's what I do. And it's amazing. It feels like all the rich people are just stupid.
Luke this might be right in the US or any other developed country but try doing that in a third world country where people have to pay for internships, you'll lose your will to live quicker than a newbie messing up his linux install.
Instead of going to the university, I decided to wait, I had a bad experience in school. In the pandemic my uncle and other people needed advertising, I didn't know at the time and started doing it. I had a lot of free time, so I started to learn programming and then English in just 6 months I was able to watch a range of media in English and talk with native. I didn't believe it. Because In school I always bad grades. A year and half passed and I got a scholarship for studying English from home and then would pay, hslf of a wage.
I'm on that boomer economy. I'm going to retire in 22years on an index linked salary @ 50% of my income. Other millennial just need to learn how to buckle down, go into a job interview and give em a firm handshake.
I am always looking to pick up new skills from various subjects...I think being self sustaining jack-of-all-trades type is going to pan out for the better than just going thru the motions.
As a boomer I agree to most of what you say. Except for the boomervthing. In my neighbourhood a lot of my boomer friends are self employed and most older and younger generation are ore were employees. This may be a special situation where I live.
Been a wage cuck for twelve years and the writing is on the wall for everyone, the entire system is not sustainable. Starting your own business is the only way to go. There's a million ways to make money these days, nobody needs to sit in an office for 10 hours every day typing on a keyboard to make money anymore.
I completely agree. In the next 10 years we will all be Minecraft content creators.
Durga Soft certified Minecraft creators*, thank you sir
Apparently Luke is a Minecraft content creator, every one always relates of Luke's farm to minecraft scenery
lopez santos Its making fun of people who say “Life is like a video game!”
We are already there playboard.co/en/youtube-ranking/most-superchated-all-channels-in-worldwide-daily most of these do minecraft streams
yup, if everyone becomes plumbers (or insert your craft skill here), what will the value of plumbers be? (low)
*Moves to a forest to avoid all competition and start his own monopoly*
unironically not a bad idea
@@dickartist literally the worst idea for societies. The opposite of competition is cooperation, not isolation.
Sells to animals
I've been thinking ironically about becoming a lumberjack
I'm starting to think so unironically
I recently graduated in CS with a focus in Cyber Security and thanks to the absolute state of things, I’ve unironically thought about building a series of solar generators and learning how to grow/raise something sellable because the jobs offered in this field are horrifying.
I’d rather give up some comfort but feel fulfilled than work in a soulless job and have a nice refrigerator.
@@stackspace Go for it, there's a small (for now) but significant market for off-grid people who would love to buy local for stuff like generators and power tools from someone they can depend on VS buying from a nameless Chinese factory
Tree guys are invaluable esp with so many people buying raw land. Not everyone can clear trees off of their property and would gladly pay for someone to do it for em
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Wagecucking is actually not a boomer thing per se. I don't really know how it was in America, but in Europe before WW1 and WW2 the vast majority of people worked as Wagecucks. During and after the industrialisation (1800-1914) the factories had massive amounts of workers, controlled by a minority of owners. I'd argue that these workers were, in fact, wagecucks. They really had no choice but to work under terrible conditions.
If we look at the time before the industrialisation (which are the middle ages), i'll grant you that the people weren't wagecucks. Instead, they were basically slaves; they had to work on their farms, not only for themselves but also to sustain their lords. (Not to say that the later and present wagecucks aren't slaves; they arguably are slaves but in a more subtle way at least)
In America things might have been a bit different at first (settelers working their farms and stuff, eventually building small-scale communities where some of them could start family-buinesses; no greedy lords like in europe). But when industrialisation kicked in and factories were built, a large number of people became wagecucks.
All in all I find your view of the past a bit romanticised. I agree with you on the point that at the moment we might see a decrease in wage labour, at least in the western world. I think that this is due to the fact that outsourcing of wage labour into less developed countries will increase (The west did a pretty good job of using people in asia for cheap work, but the capitalist will say "why stop there?" Think of the vast numbers of people in africa and south america that are not yet working in sweatshops). This and the fact that the population of western countries is in decline will make wage labour in the west less effective, which means that more people in the west will need to pursue more entrepreneur-ish careers.
I conclude that the industialisation has been a disaster for the human race but things were already pretty bad before. We really need to move into a direction where more people lead independent lives, but the vision I described where this is achieved through outsourcing of manual work into third-world countries is the wrong way in my opinion.
This is an educated post. Thanks, Op.
The reason why (american) boomers don't understand how the world works is because their education system genuinely doesnt teach anything that isn't about americans or american revolution. That's how you get dumb bullshit like "social democracy means rich communists" and "the red pill means faschism, exept now that wachowskis are sisters because gay nazis are the good nazis". As itself, who cares what the 'Muricans are doing exept that due to internet the woke is spreading to ALL western countries. And yes, comrade, i heard the dogwhistle, i know only dogs hear dogwhistle, we're both totally ironic Zizek fans, wink.
Btw isn't it kind of funny that only country where communism really took off was in the one country where serfdom survived the industrialization? oh right, workers just spontaneously rise up. I mean, soviets and north koreans WERE pretty intimitading before they couldn't no longer hide how ridiculously stagnant and corrupt they were. I wonder if there were any other political system where ridiculously stagnant and corrupt self-declared absolute political authority caused a long dark period of history where it expanded where it could, and in hindsight quite inevitably collapsed, exept those couple countries where it is kept around in name only. Wacky thoughts huh?
At least in 1800-1914 (actually, 1911) we had real currency. And you actually made enough money to buy land and a house by just doing a "wageslave" job
Beautifully put
yeah I found this channel a few days ago and a few videos in the guys just full of shit, its just Uncle Ted polemics without any solutions. But also hypocritical cuz he's using computers and promoting crypto schemes while shit talking technology and "modern" society. Ok buddy, take a step back.
I guess its easy to be self employed in the US. In other places its a bureaucratic and financial nightmare.
Yeah, here in Italy calling it nightmare is almost a compliment.
It sucks to not be American.
@@erikpeterson778 Maybe the agorist way is the only way.
Are you the singer from Spain?
same here in Greece. We need find a way
This is something that's actually very strange for me to think about. I just graduated from college and got a great job, but I realized that outside of work I have no expectations on me. No deadlines, no due dates. All my life I've had school and a "next step" that's right there visible. Now I am an adult and it's overdue for me to pick my own next steps. (Land, marriage, etc) But it is a very weird mental shift. It's no longer "what do I have to do next" it's "what do I want to do next" or "What would be beneficial for me to do next". I thought about it and I have a few paths that could be ahead but I never have really picked which path I want to go down before besides "which degree do you want" and that I knew for a long time so I haven't had flexibility or unknowns in my life's path before. It's very refreshing and also very weird.
I post this not as a "wow look what I can do" but as a way for other people my age to think about what Luke posted in a different way. It's not that you have to go out there and make a name for yourself or do some super hard thing, it's that you just have to decide 1) What you want and 2) How to get it yourself. And you're more than equipped to do so! Just pick small things at first and get it going some momentum going. I think my zoomer generation just legitimately isn't used to making any decisions for themselves. I know I'm not!
It's a very foreign concept to me to have multiple paths available in life. It sure is a lot of fun though!! So go out there and make some decisions for yourself! Learn to ask for forgiveness rather than permission if you have to.
I am from the Boomer generation (42 yrs in IT).
Now retired.
The very question you are asking in this thread will lead you to an answer, which may have to be revised several times in your lifetime.
Since you can ask this question now to yourself, will lead you to the answer!!!
Who says we need to do or plan anything? It is in a format or protocol of some sorts with a job. It's better to focus on that. Another job will be based on the first. The third will be based on the previous ones. You will get women, land and housing easily with jobs. You won't become a rock star or something that way.
I know because I didn't think and followed my heart or something. The beginning started like that (education, job) and it wasn't me at all. It should have been coding and it wasn't. Life is not about speculating and planning everything. Luke don't get it that some of us can jump around freely but it's not for all. It takes something and cost a lot to not have a line of jobs to show for some other good job. Maybe, just maybe, he liked all the jobs he had and didn't think so much about that he generated CV and crap himself and doesn't know anything about being an adult in the super egg he lives in.
I’m late millennial and totally relate with your comment. Lately I am questioning myself. Who am I? What I really like? What I was influenced to like? I pushed away my friends to try to find an answer. Got some
plan for financial independence retire early, and that will open even more doors for you (even if u dont actually retire). learn critical skills/knowledge areas while in the corporate cube, maximize your options.
My guardians passed when I was 14 I started taking care of myself at that age and had to grow up quick. Since then I’ve been very strong headed in my own ways of being productive and how things should get done to be successful. Your comment really puts it into perspective how regular people might think, I appreciate you helping me understand.
Local boomer advocates for a final solution to the boomer question.
Sounds like a Sabaton song
One word: Time
I stopped caring about money because I realized that I'm not a consoomer, so I don't need that much, that living a healthy lifestyle is actually much cheaper than what most people do, and that doing things without money is more interesting anyway. Getting things for free and fixing them is pretty cool. You only really need a lot of money if you are weak and addicted to new garbage.
Computers are the best example. You don't need a new Rysen CPU with the latest Titan GPU that's all being water cooled through your RGB rig that costed quad digits to have a usable computer.
For me, any laptop or desktop released in the mid to late 2000s with Linux installed is more then usable now, and I find these in the trash all the time.
You won't be able to play new games or play 4K videos, but new games are trash and 4K is unnecessarily.
You can get an Apple monitor-stand for just $999.
@@thepuzzlemaster64 Pretty much. 4K is a huge waste of space. I tend to go for 720p, and 480p for old things that I would watch on my CRT (that I got for free). I also almost only play games on emulators at this point, so any computer is fine for that, even my 2007 desktop. The newest game that I consider one of my favorites is Dark Souls, and even my GPU that was released in 2014 is overkill for that, and probably still runs current games anyway. Even for a source-based distribution like Gentoo, my FX-8300 (2012) is more than enough.
The fact that people treat technology as disposable and always need to have the newest latest thing just makes things cheaper for someone like me. Even all the most expensive things I want are old anyway, actually. Also, one of the biggest ways to save money is on cars. NormalFRIENDS are addicted as hell to new cars. They can't stand the idea of buying used. It hurts their pride, and doesn't satisfy their status addictions. They can't live without a car loan. That's where you come in, you take advantage of that. You learn about buying cars and you take a good one directly from them for a good price. Maybe you can even buy two just in case something goes wrong, so you can try to fix them yourself, and then you acquire another new skill.
@@ZappyOh Or you can glue the thing to the ceiling fan with duct tape. Much cheaper.
I care about money because I don't like being homeless and I want to live in a nice neighborhood.
Next 10 years: The countryside will be over populated with Starbucks cafés and Hipster settlers from the cities.
Just gotta go farther out. Have you ever driven across this country? Still lots of open land left.
@@spanky4446 That's Wyoming for ya! 👌
I live in North Carolina and am watching this come true
This can relate to my entire life. I have graduated with a Commerce degree and ended up working as a digital marketing/SEO marketing idiot under the most irritating boss you will ever have. I hated my job and then I decided to quit my job. My father was a carpenter and I really love the way he work/enjoy his job. I started learning carpentry at the age of 35 and now I'm freelance carpenter. Now, I'm my own. I'm not an "EMPLOYEEE". No boss. I'm the boss. I'm not making that much money I used to make when I was a digital marketer. But, I don't care. I'm slowly becoming a minimalist .
Ironic. In my younger days I worked as a carpenter, now trying to be a digital marketer.
I've never had any respect for the public education system. College in particular is a waste of time and money as far as learning skills goes. I'm getting the cheapest computer engineering degree I can get (a local community college), and that's mainly just so I can increase my pay grade a little so I can work towards my 7yr retirement / entrepeneurship plan. Doing what I love for the sake of personal enjoyment, not to pay bills or put food on the table.
I feel you, college is a drag. I’ve dropped out twice and both times after struggling because of the boomer “bachelors required” decided to go back.
@@joey199412 I’m working through it as we speak (I hate it lol). But stories like that inspire me, how hard was computer science? I’m currently doing nursing!
I'm currently in a public highschool in NZ. I hate it. S*icidal as cause of it. It's just constant cucking to a system that forces you to have all your attention on what it wants, with not time for anything else. All for mostly useless skills like writing essays on novels. Even for 'useful' subjects like math, its mostly a waste of time. With all the resources online I can (And have. At old schools) learn through that. Its more efficient (You waste so much time in school) and you can learn in a way where you aren't a cuck to the 'teacher' in front, and don't want to k* yourself. Plus, when I have learnt stuff online or through family friends or others, I actually enjoy it, and as a consequence learn better. One of my friends is looking at getting an apprenticeship at a bunch of car dealerships around town. (He's been getting accepted so has choice) The only thing will be that he won't have a 'highschool education'. Doesn't need it. Smart as, especially on mechanics and such. Learned almost entirely through family, friends and online. Other friends who are still in the system only ever talk about school this or that. Their whole life is school. It's depressing and frustrating as. I hope to escape. Perhaps to those GED's I have heard about and go to seminary or something. One of the few things I enjoy that hasn't been corrupted by school. God. Please pray for me.
@@jeffpickens4467 no wonder so many school shootings have occured
I wish I could like this a thousand times. This completely confirms my biases and I feel good about myself because of it.
Even in 90s in eastern europe; majority of the population was self-sufficient - their participation in the general economy was limited to obtaining industrial manufactured products/tools - usually in exchange for services/crops.
We'll never go back to that
Now everything is imported and it's too expensive to try and start a local business
90's Eastern Europe. What a utopia.
I have at least two friends in Slovenia that built their own house. Big and good quality too
Most people there still garden and build their own homes. By necessity
Will watch this after punching the clock.
Will watch this after punching the tree.
I have been watching your videos for some time and after watching this I instantly subscribed. Many channels take up the mainstream views i.e normie videos they are. Your stance on freedom is very unique.Lot of people nowadays think they are free, free to do anything but the huge corporate sharks will never allow such a thing to happen.
The romanticism of this story is truly hart warming. In fact, my father, my grandfathers and almost all my ancestors were employees of some sort. And I'm not the only one. The only thing that really changed is the level of knowledge required to make a living wage. My grandfathers had no education, but they could buy a house and go on vacation with a family of six children. My father is a boomer who needed medium level skills to do the same. My parents now take seven international vacation trips a year. My friends are all university graduates and they need double incomes to buy a smaller house that is further away from their work. Boomers did not invent this stuff. They just ruined it for the rest of us.
How did boomers ruin it? Technological advancement is what has made people more redundant. Nowadays society doesn’t need your labor as much. Therefore you’re left to fend for yourself. I wouldn’t be surprised to find more people moving to a pre-industrial homesteading lifestyle.
@@solonyetski Stupid frogposter
@@jc_nifb seethe
They had good timing is all
My mom pushed me all my life to go through this stupid path and I'm paying dearly for it with student loans I can't pay, and now I'm self-teaching the stuff 'art school' failed to teach me.
she pushed you into art school and taking out loans for that? or she said art school would contribute to success in the entertainment (oops..art) world? wow, bad mom!
@DJTripleThreat78 smart! 3 squares a day, a roof over your head, education opportunities, and it will give you a boost-up if you apply for government jobs in the future (big corporate jobs too!).
that's entirely on you for choosing the wrong art school to attend. had you gone to vienna academy of fine arts, you would really have learned quite a few important life-lessons.
@@georgemartyn5268 Well, thanks for the late advice and condemnation. Much appreciated. God bless.
@@TheSteveTheDragon god bless bro, here's me waving at you o/
When the boomers were going to college not many people got college degrees, so people who had them were in high demand. Thats why they told their kids to get them. But now the market is saturated. In the past before technology a ton of people were needed, and now much less people are needed to produce food..ect but the country has 3x the population as 1900
But you have to be a "hyper-alpha go getter" if you want to make it on your own.
>There is no such thing as a big fish in a small pond. The moment you actually make it big by being in a place without big companies, that is an invitation for big companies to pour their gigantic resources into driving you out of business.
>Most average people will have an average level of talent at doing stuff. Take your example about woodworking. You may create everything you need, but it is going to have a piece junk quality compared to stuff designed by professionals and mass produced with precise and very $$$ expensive equipment.
I agree that not everyone can be a successful bug man but don't over sell it. You are essentially learning to make the most out of being poor and marginalized, and the so called "independence" is coping for not being able to make it big (even if the average person really wanted it).
"precision" in stamped sheet metal and routed wood lol
Handmade stuff will literally have better fit and finish. It takes time while a machine does it in seconds. You can't outfit a whole IKEA store with your models but they'll probably better built. I have IKEA furniture. It's useful and practical, but fragile. If the back panel of my shoe drawers were any thinner, they'd be cardboard.
If kids weren’t put into boxes perhaps there would be more self sufficient people.
For those struggling to gain traction, I recommend *lists*. You can't keep your plans all in your head. They'll disappear, warp, and change constantly.
Start with life goals. Time frames don't have to be super specific.
Next write goals for the next year or two.
Write down what you need to do this month to meet your goals.
Write down what you need to do this week to meet your goals.
Write down what you need to do today to meet your goals. No step is too small to add to your daily list.
Review and add to your list every day. Make a whole new daily list for tomorrow.
For someone with ADHD, it's like magic.
I can get behind the difficulty point. Even with an engineering degree, getting a job is basically impossible in this economy. Yet somehow I can still make money by designing and building things for local businesses, as an unemployed bum. Mostly using skills I've learned on my own or from my dad.
Wow a forest? It's just like in minecraft, a minecraft forest!
This dude exploring a dark oak forest just like in Minecraft 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
excuse my blatant ignorance, is there mosquito in this minecrafr ye speak of?
One day he will just find a village and shit
@Aajonus Online agreed zombies might be a bit more of an annoyance than mosquitoes alright
If he's lucky, he might find a woodland mansion.
Geez, I get that this is satire, but the future concerns me. Well at least I think it's satire
Step number one stop buying toys and start buying tools.
Hey it's the smart lady from the comments section! :)
@@joshuadonahue5871 hi Joshua🐣
Hi Mary! I get excited when my RUclipsrs crossover. Especially when I least expect it.
but my tools are my toys, help!!
@@Klayperson sounds like you are in great shape. Go play
So does that mean that all my hobby jobs that keep popping-up in my head (sewing, repearing trashed computers, programming, animating, painting, drawing) are actually good outside the boomer economy?
If that's true then I've got a goldmine of skills that I've just been putting-off for years.
Yes but it does not mean you will necessarily get money for it (like beign an employee). You have to offer things people are willing to pay for it.
@@alejandrosrwebmaster "You have to offer things people are willing to pay for it."
Well being an employee is kinda this. You're selling your work to someone who's willing to buy it
Yes the internet makes it incredibly easy to find someone who wants to pay you for something too. You don't even need to make a business or do it through a special platform.
Ideally you'll want to just focus on a few that are closely related, then hobbies become more of a specialized skill set that can lead to a business, which is generally how successful businesses start by being ran by someone who has enthusiasm for the field and not just money. creating value leads to money, don't forget the order.
@@egg5474
My plan is to try-out everything that I think would suit me (preferably two at a time), then if I feel like a hobby isn't as good as I thought, I get rid of it and try a new one.
I keep doing this until I find my match, then I'll proceed to focus on it until I feel like I don't need a job anymore.
At the moment I live in an apartment close to an e-waste dump that I can pick through (surprising find!). What I can do is start repairing old laptops and computers then sell them online for a bit of profit. I've also fallen in love with Bob Ross and there's a store no too far away that sell Bob Ross painting products, so I could try-out my painting skills as well.
Planned the boomer route but thankfully I've come up with a great alternative - get rejected after every interview so you have to make money your own way.
Thanks, Luke. I totally agree with you. I think we all need to get more mature and think independently:)
Blame corporates for this system. Starting from industrialisation
People in my age group on average actively refuse to do "gig" work. Around when you put this video out my group was just hitting our 20's and I effectively asked "Hey so Sh*t's F#cked, We're all unemployed now, How about I filter through Craigslist for things you(s) could do while I'm looking for stuff I can do" and the immediate response was "how about you get a job." That came from my supposedly entrepreneurial friends. The Domestication runs deep and it hurts.
The domestication has worked so well that there's no new domestication taking place, the idea of getting a job is just so ingrained that it's a prerequisite to social acceptance
This is good advice. I see videos from people like networkchuck who encourage people to learn certain skills like AWS or Linux because they can make a lot of money working for corporations maintaining their servers or whatever - it pisses me off. In contrast, luke is quite the opposite and aligns nicely with my idea of life and also his disdain for employment makes it better. Keep doing what youre doing man. If possible make a video about writing pkgbuilds and compiling programs from source.
That abomination always poked me the wrong way. I fully agree, learn skills you need to be successful, not to make someone else profitable. They name the price, that isn't how this works.
This Luke Smith dude, Totally gets it!
Which departament of Microsoft does he work in?
Compliance
There are a lot of good skills and crafts that you can do that lead to much more independence, and still are part of the "system", being an electrician or carpenter as you said are examples.
If you get your CDL then it's not a long path to own your own rig and drive for the contracts you want to do.
Just calling people "wage cucks" ignores the fact that people may need to take work that isn't ideal to survive. You can't set yourself up overnight. But most jobs treat people as disposable, because that's what they are for the system. The antidote is treating the system as disposable, use it and then abandon it when you get a real chance, instead of the other way around.
hvac installation, plumbing, or appliance repair are other good options that allow more independence than a "job".
@@derekmcdaniel6029 true, just don’t be some boomers slave (happens to a lot of young guys). There’s also medical trades as well
Learning skills they can't take away from you is such an underrated point. Remember how Microsoft changes their entire stack almost every 4 to 6 years, Linux doesn't. Linux matures and as it matures you mature with it and you master it as well. Nobody can take the skills you have away when the software is open source. Imagine mastering powershell and then 2 years later they drop it in favor of bash 😂
Imagine how Javascript developers feel? One thing that’s taught me is learning how to learn skills is more important than learning skills
I think schools are to blame. They should teach people to think for themselves but instead they just teach people to be obedient little workers. Any wonder they want to replace their teacher with a boss?
Planting a garden is like printing your own money but even better. Honestly just buy heirloom and organic tomatoes from the store, save the seeds and start right there
What kind of money plant are you growing 👀
I love when the video starts with "Now, what do I mean by that?" It genuinely makes me happy.
Whats crazy is people are STILL going to college thinking their degrees will come with a swift entrance into "35 years at the same job, a nice retirement package, and of course, the nice watch"... whats sad is a lot of people could be using their insanely priced tuition fees on something way better suited for the modern era and for their own personality and work style. A good skill to pick up is organic gardening. You are able to make your own food in the process and the quality is better than even USDA organic produce in the shops that you pay half your ass for. At the very worst, you have a self made food source. At the very best, you can make a very profitable business out of it. Our schools need healthier food options and you could make a KILLING selling locally grown organic produce for the kids' lunches. Thats the kinda change we need around the great USA. Hell, then open up private clinics for kids and their parents to get taught on how to grow their own food. Charge a few bucks a person... (hands rubbing together)
You should record a found-footage horror movie in that forest
we'll get that when the gubmint comes for him in the middle of a vlog
Thanks Luke for all your wisdom.
My mother told me I should just buy a gaming PC instead of building because its more economical to just work those hours for my wage
There's a genuine lack of intellectual curiosity in that, a trusting of the system
She may not be wrong if you make a decent wage. However, the real problem with that attitude is that it disincentivizes you from learning anything other than what you do for your job.
Based. return to family craftsman and guild based economy
The only thing I would disagree with is that if job is interesting and HR people aren't as annoying, then being an employee can be fun. And, depending on a country, you barely have to work overtime if at all. I would not go as far as calling that wage-slaving, provided pay is decent.
Only problem there is too much people doing all sorts of shit and most labour costs pennies
That's a lot of words for "We live in a society."
This video is only valid for first world countries, in third world countries like mine you have to work want it or not, or else you'll get in misery.
Employee more like employeet😎
I just finished "Men Among the Ruins." You're saying a lot of the same stuff.
sewing makers, preppers, brewers, etc, so many thing you can do at home even in an apartment. the side hustle is real and alive in 2020
Do you make money selling those things?
So is the Boomer societal structure. I tell my sons (20s and 30s) that the next 30 years are going to be turbulent.
Free and open-source economy!
how in the hell is he earning money by knowing latin
he said it didn't necessarily open economic opportunities
Seems like everyone who knows Latin can't stop talking about how valuable it is while never truly explaining its actual value.
A bunch of European languages (French, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Romanian) evolved directly from Latin. You would be surprised how many words even in English are derived from Latin. So I guess knowing Latin is like a good foundation for understanding modern European languages in general.
@@atypicalambience3487 He wasn't saying it earned him money, but rather that it enriched him personally. If you can only understand the value of a skill in economic terms you're falling into the consoomer wagecuck mindset.
lukesmith.xyz/articles/latin
TL;DW
"Am I your mother? Make your own way!"
This is the spirit of the whole thing!
Yes, normal people were really free in the medieval Times and Roman times....
Never forced nor depending on their rulers...
That was indeed the 'Roman dream' of all people
"they have to buy everything" *Amazon ad plays*
IMO all you need is what you need NOW. Just choose a project for yourself. Whether it's Foss development or an Open Movie or a book, comics, music... Whatever. And do this most of the time. Unpaid. Un-heard of. And have a dish washing job somewhere for 2 days a week to pay rent and eat a potato a day. That's what I do. And it's amazing. It feels like all the rich people are just stupid.
Luke this might be right in the US or any other developed country but try doing that in a third world country where people have to pay for internships, you'll lose your will to live quicker than a newbie messing up his linux install.
I have to honestly say you hit it home this time.
What will a good mindset do when resources simply don't exist because they were already extracted?
Not going to school and exploring the world? That's just like MINECRAFT!!!
Apple - $2 trillion market cap
TSLA - Broke $2K
Boomers are still rejoicing
Nah...that's no boomers. That's idiot millennial Robin-Hood-Traders. Stonks only go up!
Great video, but I wish the video went into more detail. This is a big subject you touched upon.
How can you say "system" so many times seemingly without knowing what it is?
Thanks man! I really needed this video!
Been a self employed bricklayer since 17. 9 months work 3 months in Bolivia living off £5 a day.
meanwhile what you just recommended against was exactly what I wanted to do with my life. my aim is now: earning money to buy land.
2:13 - population growth and normalization ! Spending time on self is hard than working for the company !!
I'm right in the middle... intrapreneur... I'm finding my way and figuring things out FOR a company.
You got it right - we are creating the new world by creating our own, unique way to live life - it's not easy but it's the only right way.
This all needed to be said.
We agree comrade.
Instead of going to the university, I decided to wait, I had a bad experience in school. In the pandemic my uncle and other people needed advertising, I didn't know at the time and started doing it. I had a lot of free time, so I started to learn programming and then English in just 6 months I was able to watch a range of media in English and talk with native. I didn't believe it. Because In school I always bad grades. A year and half passed and I got a scholarship for studying English from home and then would pay, hslf of a wage.
congratulations for 100k subs!
... and around and around we go. I was around in the 60's … flower power, communes, tie dye, the whole bit. Be safe all.
Translation of the weird part from 7:16 to 7:30 :
Picking up skills migh unlock side quest along the way
^^
gen x is extremely guilty of this i actually despise them more than boomers
Yeah the good times when you could be a cobbler and mine cobblestone
My whole life I was told to go to school and get a job.
Thankfully, I managed to.
Now everything points to quit your job, start your own business.
I can relate to that.
Almost 100k. Congrats Luke. You've come a long way.
Congrats on 100K consoomers
I'm on that boomer economy. I'm going to retire in 22years on an index linked salary @ 50% of my income. Other millennial just need to learn how to buckle down, go into a job interview and give em a firm handshake.
You're deluding yourself if you think it's going to last 22 years.
....and we are trying to maximize the wealth of someone else's company at the cost of our freedom.
congrats on the 100k vim diesel
surprised at how well this held up
I just found your channel and it's really great. subbed.
Three adverts in only 6 Minutes, WTF? Is this RUclips going crazy on advertising now?
Nice ideas, i learn quite a bit here!
Luke’s been gone for awhile. Almost 100k!
I am always looking to pick up new skills from various subjects...I think being self sustaining jack-of-all-trades type is going to pan out for the better than just going thru the motions.
CS degree gang
Rise up.
Summer 2021. Luke is in the jungle with machete
If you want to make a shitton of money, become a plumber
100k subscribers soon. Congrats.
As a boomer I agree to most of what you say. Except for the boomervthing. In my neighbourhood a lot of my boomer friends are self employed and most older and younger generation are ore were employees. This may be a special situation where I live.
Independent of "the system" but dependent on the family. Both can be bad. It would be better to try a few work options to check what fits you most.
Live like a Laotian immigrant
Been a wage cuck for twelve years and the writing is on the wall for everyone, the entire system is not sustainable. Starting your own business is the only way to go. There's a million ways to make money these days, nobody needs to sit in an office for 10 hours every day typing on a keyboard to make money anymore.
Dude, a forest. Just like Minecraft.
This reminded me of Émile Durkheim's - Le suicide.
Wise words.