{"id":90629,"date":"2013-05-28T03:04:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T09:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90629"},"modified":"2013-05-28T03:07:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T09:07:33","slug":"hipsters-on-food-stamps-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90629","title":{"rendered":"Hipsters on Food Stamps, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a simple thesis and no one wants to hear it: hipsters may lack drive, but the world they live in wasn’t set up by them, it was set up by their parents, i.e. the Dumbest Generation Of Narcissists In The History Of The World, the ones who magnified the importance and cost of college without having any idea of what should be its purpose, let alone its content.<\/p>\n

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So start with an interesting hypothetical: does everybody<\/i> need to work anymore?\u00a0 I understand work from an ethical\/character perspective, this is not here my point.\u00a0 Since we no longer need e.g. manufacturing jobs– cheaper elsewhere or with robots– since those labor costs have evaporated, could that surplus go towards paying people simply to stay out of trouble?\u00a0 Is there a natural economic equilibrium price where, say, a U Chicago grad can do no economically productive work at all but still be paid to use Instagram?\u00a0 Let me be explicit: my question is not should <\/i>we do this, my question is that since this is precisely what’s happening already<\/i>, is it sustainable?\u00a0 What is the cost?\u00a0 I don’t have to run the numbers, someone already has: it’s $150\/mo for a college grads, i.e. the price of food stamps.\u00a0 Other correct responses would be $700\/mo for “some high school” (SSI) or $1500\/mo for “previous work experience” (unemployment).\u00a0 I would have accepted $2000\/mo for “minorities” (jail) for partial credit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read it. It’s a simple thesis and no one wants to hear it: hipsters may lack drive, but the world they live in wasn’t set up by them, it was set up by their parents, i.e. the Dumbest Generation Of Narcissists In The History Of The World, the ones who magnified the importance and cost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90629","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=90629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90631,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90629\/revisions\/90631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}