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There's no way your dad could have known what was going to happen. There's no way people around you could have known that you were in a career path that wasn't going to work out well for you. Nobody can guarantee the future like that.

The other thing is that even if you're working in STEM, to follow up with your example, there are thousands of different jobs that all feel totally different to people working them. It's quite possible that you could initially hate the field, then make some lateral shift, and find a position that is halfway decent. Here again, nobody knows what's going to be good for you.

If you want responsible career advice, it's quite simple. Because there aren't guarantees, you might want to develop several different skill sets, so that you're in a better position to deal with unknown future changes. If you think you can learn how to do one simple thing and then have 45 years of happiness doing it, flip a coin and hope luck is on your side.

You should have known that there was nothing to gain by telling him what you did. Kids that age are smart enough to realize that if they aren't being selected to the local all-star team, it's because they're not an all-star. If they go to football camp and they aren't one of the best people at the camp, they'll realize that they're not very likely to go pro. But you decided to make it your business at a time when you didn't need to, and that makes you a jerk.

You said that you're just being objective and realistic, right, but you decided to tell your son your opinion, and not someone else. If you were actually trying to be objective, you would have told everyone on the team what you thought about their potential. Of course that would be really rude, which is the point.

What you could have done is what many other people have mentioned in the comments. Something about how there's no guarantee that anyone can make it pro, or how long they'll last if they do, because random injuries can end your career, and the median length of a professional footballer isn't very long anyway, so there's still the rest of life to live.

If you know anyone over the age of 60 who has a retirement plan other than social security, you know someone who is affected by stocks. If the market stays down for a long time, many elderly people will not have enough money to live out their retirement. This will certainly impact millions of Americans. If you think it's a small problem, you haven't thought it through very well.

Also, the crash itself doesn't make anyone's life any better. We didn't need the crash. We didn't need the crash before. We needed to do things to make life better for the average American, and especially for poorer americans, and we still need that. Crashes don't make that happen, and it's wishful thinking to suggest that they will.

It's very simple. His position is that whatever he does is perfect. If he openly considers the impacts of temporarily weakening the economy, and the consequences that go with retirees losing their homes, for example, he will have to admit imperfection. And he's such a narcissist that he's incapable of that. He can allude to some possible temporary badness as long as he doesn't overly focus on it.

At the same time, because of his broken brain and his narcissism, facts are not facts. Everything is an opinion. Therefore, the reporter was expressing an opinion through their question, and they should have known that his opinion is more important than theirs.

And before that it was developed together with the military. It seems we've gone full circle.

What do you mean by that? What goes both ways? If you're suggesting that Republicans will attack other Republicans, that's not what we saw in the presidential race. Maybe if we rewind to 1992, why not.

Well no. Actually we aren't supposed to trust the government. That's why we have (in theory) a system of checks and balances. The whole point is that we rely on them and hope they'll do the right thing, but we need to be paying some attention some of the time, because they will occasionally get things wrong.

There was a time when people were dependent on defined benefit pensions. Then the U.S. pivoted to defined contribution plans, 401Ks. This of course put retirees at risk of a situation like the present one.

Could they have diversified their portfolio better? Sure. Should you blame them for Trump being an evil asshole? Only if you are one, too. The system itself was redesigned to fuck over the elderly, my friend. Then it did.

Who is confused? I think most of us understand what happened and think it's total shit.

That alone is not the crazy part, though. Of course many laws have edge cases where you should ignore them for practical reasons in rare circumstances. But here, it's not an edge case. It's right there in open sight.

When a criticism is actually an admission. Well done, Donald.

No. Kindness is often a tool for conservatives to maintain power. It's important, but integrity is more important.