Some of the smartest guys I know on here, who used to write 10,000 word essays that I always learned from, are now working in construction because they couldn't get a white-collar job, or even an interview, after 800+ job applications. A lot of friends tell me in private they're not doing well, or they had to change industries, or they're living at home with their parents, or they had to leave America to find work overseas. DEI crushed them. What are we doing to help them? Nothing. Not a thing. And these guys are ambitious, self-motivated, credentialed, genius autodidacts with intense work ethics. I shudder to think what life is like for the ordinary young white man who is not some brilliant outlier, he's just a normal American suffering from intense, systemic racial-sexual discrimination.
How long did it take for civilization to recover from the Bronze Age Collapse? 300-400 years. Okay that's how I think about DEI affirmative action. The Woke era (2014-2024) completely burned American elite institutions to the ground. The smart young white men who should've been funneled into career pipelines were locked out and mostly never got started. You have 130+ IQ genius autodidacts on FrogTwitter working as janitors, waiting tables, digging ditches, and driving Ubers because they couldn't get an interview after 800 job applications. There is a total lack of seriousness from anyone in power in how EXTREME and RADICAL we are going to need to be in order to "remedy" this crisis of talent misallocation. Zero urgency from Republican leadership.