Escaping the permanent underclass

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html

What strategies are you embarking on to make sure you and your family are going to escape the permanent underclass?

Get educated k-12
No addictions
No big debts
Stay out of trouble
Work hard
Live within means
Set boundaries w toxic family members
Relocate if necessary

Avoiding teen parenthood and delaying childbearing until you are in a stable relationship with stable housing and income.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html

What strategies are you embarking on to make sure you and your family are going to escape the permanent underclass?

Get educated k-12
No addictions
No big debts
Stay out of trouble
Work hard
Live within means
Set boundaries w toxic family members
Relocate if necessary

Avoiding teen parenthood and delaying childbearing until you are in a stable relationship with stable housing and income.

Agree, add that to their list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html

What strategies are you embarking on to make sure you and your family are going to escape the permanent underclass?


Get educated k-12
No addictions
No big debts
Stay out of trouble
Work hard
Live within means
Set boundaries w toxic family members
Relocate if necessary


Avoiding teen parenthood and delaying childbearing until you are in a stable relationship with stable housing and income.

Focus on stable housing and income. Accept that you might not be bearing children if this doesn't happen or even if it does, you might not be able to throw the cost of childcare into the mix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html

What strategies are you embarking on to make sure you and your family are going to escape the permanent underclass?

The US won’t have an economy in a few months 99 percent of the country will be unemployed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html

What strategies are you embarking on to make sure you and your family are going to escape the permanent underclass?

Get educated k-12
No addictions
No big debts
Stay out of trouble
Work hard
Live within means
Set boundaries w toxic family members
Relocate if necessary

Avoiding teen parenthood and delaying childbearing until you are in a stable relationship with stable housing and income.

Sure with project 2025 the list above isn’t a thing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html

What strategies are you embarking on to make sure you and your family are going to escape the permanent underclass?

Lol.

Are you the blogger writer posting this here?

No one cares about an AI-written, overly long article from a 24 yo substack blogger.

Go get your clicks elsewhere. So should NYT online but whatever; they used to be 90% blogger OpEd BS.

Lol. True. Lame opinion article by a <25 yo, and it’s about 4 times to long. Bad AI style write.

[Anonymous]

AI can publish your opinion article to post across 1000s of websites like DCUM or log in ones like Reddit.

Everyone can read everyone’s opinion one in a split second.

Ain’t life grand!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html

What strategies are you embarking on to make sure you and your family are going to escape the permanent underclass?

Get educated k-12
No addictions
No big debts
Stay out of trouble
Work hard
Live within means
Set boundaries w toxic family members
Relocate if necessary

Avoiding teen parenthood and delaying childbearing until you are in a stable relationship with stable housing and income.

+1. I’m a teacher and the kids from very low SES families with generational poverty who manage to claw their way out do all the things the two PPs mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It takes money to make money; all apps posting about “investing” and “renovating” and “hoarding” are not underclass. Underclass people pay penalties for being underclass, and therefore cannot find a way out. Throw in some classism, racism, gatekeeping, voicelessness, and general antipathy toward the poors, and there’s your recipe for no escape.

It also takes opportunity to make opportunity.
Young people in rural areas with little access to jobs or college education, with parents who can’t guide them and who, for all intents and purposes, still live in the past mentally.
They also don’t have the money, but what’s most important they lack guidance and opportunity to change anything. An 18 yo without a DL (parents don’t care to teach) and no money for a car has no way of finding a decent job outside of bigger metro areas at least.
They can go to college on a scholarship but there are all those small expenses that aren’t funded and they add up and how does one earn the money to cover them? It’s catch 22.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html

What strategies are you embarking on to make sure you and your family are going to escape the permanent underclass?


Get educated k-12
No addictions
No big debts
Stay out of trouble
Work hard
Live within means
Set boundaries w toxic family members
Relocate if necessary


Avoiding teen parenthood and delaying childbearing until you are in a stable relationship with stable housing and income.

Focus on stable housing and income. Accept that you might not be bearing children if this doesn't happen or even if it does, you might not be able to throw the cost of childcare into the mix.

Nothing is stable anymore. College education and some meaningful skill, ability to navigate bureaucracy (in case applying for benefits) and you can risk it with childbearing.
Waiting until 40 isn’t smart. You’ll never be a helpful grandma at 80, at that rate. Also your kid doesn’t want to deal with you in addition to dealing with newborns (assuming two generations become parents at 40 or so).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It takes money to make money; all apps posting about “investing” and “renovating” and “hoarding” are not underclass. Underclass people pay penalties for being underclass, and therefore cannot find a way out. Throw in some classism, racism, gatekeeping, voicelessness, and general antipathy toward the poors, and there’s your recipe for no escape.

+1 the people at risk of being the permanent underclass are minimum wage workers with little savings or fallback.

A min wage worker in NYC is in an infinitely better position than their rural Ohio counterpart. At least there’s access to transportation and benefits.
Unless of course they are a member of certain urban groups where there’s mentality that keeps you there