{"id":90064,"date":"2013-05-13T04:32:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T10:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90064"},"modified":"2013-05-13T04:32:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T10:32:26","slug":"10-reasons-why-2013-will-be-the-year-you-quit-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90064","title":{"rendered":"10 Reasons Why 2013 Will Be the Year You Quit Your Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Altucher<\/a> is even more pessimistic than I am. I didn’t think that was possible.<\/p>\n

1) The middle class is dead.\u00a0<\/strong>A few weeks ago I visited a friend of mine who manages a trillion dollars. No joke. A trillion. If I told you the name of the family he worked for you would say, \u201cthey have a trillion? Really?\u201d But that\u2019s what happens when $10 million compounds at 2 percent over 200 years.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201clook out the windows.\u201d We looked out at all the office buildings around us. \u201cWhat do you see?\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re empty! All the cubicles are empty. The middle class is being hollowed out.\u201d And I took a closer look. Entire floors were dark. Or there were floors with one or two cubicles but the rest empty. \u201cIt\u2019s all outsourced, or technology has taken over for the paper shufflers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot all the news is bad,\u201d he said. \u201cMore people entered the upper class than ever last year.\u201d But, he said, more people are temp staffers than ever.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the new paradigm. The middle class has died. The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.<\/p>\n

And it was. The biggest provider of mortgages for the past 50 years, Fannie Mae, had as their slogan, \u201cWe make the American Dream come true.\u201d It was just a marketing slogan all along. How many times have I cried because of a marketing slogan. And then they ruined it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Altucher is even more pessimistic than I am. I didn’t think that was possible. 1) The middle class is dead.\u00a0A few weeks ago I visited a friend of mine who manages a trillion dollars. No joke. A trillion. If I told you the name of the family he worked for you would say, \u201cthey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90066,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90064\/revisions\/90066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}