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Re:Play Deprivation Is a Major Cause of the Teen Mental Heal... by SoftTalker on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:34PM (#36912100)
Kids don't need a college degree to avoid homelessness or starvation. They do need valuable skills, but that could be HVAC, electrician, carpenter, mechanic, any number of things that don't take anything more than some community/vocational college or just working your way up from entry-level to get into.

People who are homeless or starving are mainly mentally ill, or simply have no skills to offer any employer and no desire to do any better.

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Re:Play Deprivation Is a Major Cause of the Teen Mental Heal... by red-iron-pine on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:15PM (#36912681)
yeah the AI is coming for your highfalutin desk job, but the carpenters will be making decent money for a while yet.

basic woodworking skills are things that they can start picking up in HS shop classes; I spent summers working in a furniture factory framing chairs as a kid.

got a neighbour who does asphalt paving -- just driveways. Dude is booked solid through the Fall and into December, and does alright. Not Palo Alto FAANG money but he's got a nice truck and a fishing boat and a nice garden that we bonded over / share tips about. point is: plenty of options for doing alright; the rest of the world ain't SF or NYC

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Re:Play Deprivation Is a Major Cause of the Teen Mental Heal... by SoftTalker on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:26PM (#36912815)
Yeah I know a guy who started as an entry-level drywaller in high school (truly one of the shittiest jobs in construction) and he now owns one of the larger drywall contractors in the area, he makes way more money than I do in software. Has more hassles than I do though, drywall company employees tend to come with a lot of headaches.
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Re:Play Deprivation Is a Major Cause of the Teen Mental Heal... by OO000oo on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:40PM (#36914345)
Yeah everyone can just be a business owner. That'll work out just great.
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