Myths Of Opportunity

Hey Jesscholars

Like many of those bright-eyed Millenials, I went to university due to pressure from my parents and the idea that "better" education leads to a better life. That spending four years getting a piece of paper now means I am competent and have market value without ever doing any work in my life. I see kids repeating the cycle each year, and each year more of them end up destitute or disappointed at what their degree guarantees them.

In life, there are no guarantees only myths of it. Some fall into situations where it works for them, and they perpetuate the stereotypes and common beliefs while others are too embarrassed or blame themselves when the system has failed them.

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Getting closer to the source

The fact of the matter is education doesn't improve your chances of getting a better life in this system; what you learn doesn't guarantee you an enhanced, opportunity. Still, it does is put you in another basket of people that can get closer to where the money supply is held and produced.

The closer you get to the inner circle, be it politics, banking, medical, law, insurance, finance and engineering you will find yourself getting more opportunities to tap into the money pool.

Some occupations don't get as unrestricted access to the money pool since other industries wrongfully and artificially monopolise it, and these positions and traits are seen as less prestigious and less useful because of money they receive for their skill and labour which is not valid.

It also attracts the best talent to a specific type of job because it's closer to the money pool than other jobs. So we continue to create ineffective job markets and money wastage, money hoarding and a stark drop in the velocity of capital which is now at an all-time low.

Commidifying to death

As we continue to dump capital into malinvestment and fund assets of diminishing returns instead of allowing a free market to dictate where capital should be done. Since we have a centrally planned system where certain powers select who will be the first and second beneficiaries of capital we've turned the system into a lottery of riches.

What you know has started to become less and less effective and how you know seems to be far more important. When you have access to the capital your ability to make more mistakes, to be less educated and to still succeed is improved by a greater factor and we can see it play out in society today with the number of wealthy morons on the internet today.

The glass ceiling for someone with productive value to breakthrough continues to get wider and they become disheartened. This means we lose even more productive people over time as they give up and focus on the rat race instead of taking the risks they should create more effective businesses, products, services and to a degree, the economy.

We are killing innovation! Innovation is now a privilege a select few are allowed to dabble in while the rest of us have to sit on the sidelines. Until we can separate money from central planning and regulation we will never be able to give the market a chance to correct these artificial avenues of capital flow.

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