Mr. Firm Handshake, Esquire

About half of current NY government workers are already able to retire at 55 with full benefits after 30 years. This was changed to 63 after 2012. Unions went to roll back that change so everyone can retire at 55 and ALSO lower their pension contribution amounts.

Boomers keep booming This guy thinks in the 90s it would be normal for a corporate guy in his 30s to be sharing an apartment with roommates He thinks buying a 4 bedroom apartment in commuting distance as a starter home is an unreasonable expectation for a top 10% earner

Incoming freshmen will now be paying $400,000 to go to a school people in my DC-area 1998 graduating class would have felt ashamed to admit they were attending,

I went from being a chronically homeless petty criminal for over 5 years to finding God, getting married, having a baby, owning multiple properties. Rags to riches, straight up. And for the lumpen types, I have genuinely valuable advice that many have successfully taken. I tried to end my own life more than once. Was drinking more than a handle a day, was a pro shoplifter, was blacking out and brawling with crust punks nightly for years halfway hoping to die, running state to state. I truly had no reason to be alive. If you want to talk about being "blackpilled," I was about as blackpilled as a guy can be. And I fought my way out of that, with a little help from the Catholic Church and the US Coast Guard, both of which taught me discipline. I'm still not good at it, but those lessons are the only reason I'm not drunk in a ditch somewhere tonight, or worse. Piece by piece, I went from no money, 13 cavities, and shaking if I didn't drink to where I'm at now -- with several years of expenses banked, two houses, a healthy baby, and an incredible wife. I won. What matters most to me are the guys who DM me every now and then -- some are depressed, some are suicidal, broke, nihilistic, stuck, and all of them ask: "what should I do?" I give them advice and many of them take it. Quite a few have reached out months later telling me they managed to build savings, leave mom's house, find work, travel the country, buy property, go to Church, and even find wives. I post for those guys and those guys only. If you're at the end of your rope, don't fucking think about suicide even for one second. Winning is 100x easier than you think it is right now, and sometimes you need a kick in the ass from someone who's been through it if you're going to get down the road to victory. If that's "performance art," so be it.

What the young people are mad about: 1995, my parents made $27k per year with no BA and rented a 2 bed apartment in a top 10 metro 2026, I make $280k per year with a masters and... I can rent a 2 bed apartment in a top 10 metro We worked harder and got nothing

The population will decline nationwide starting in 2030 without immigration, CBO projects. Population decline is actually likely already occurring because net immigration will be negative in 2026.