There is a lack of humility that is far too common, that manifests as a toxic attitude and bad spending habits. I see a similar issue with people in finance, and once the illusion fades such people are prone to suicide, as was the case in 2008.

>myself (:

There is no scenario where the situation is fixed, there are only situations where it MAY be 'less disastrous', but it's entirely speculative.

>Humanity needs to act now.

And do what exactly? The kill count from shutting down all emission-producing parts of society would be enormous, and it still wouldn't be enough to keep global warming at a level that is habitable for a good chunk of people on the planet.

Net zero carbon by 2030 is a joke, literally nobody is on track to meet those targets and BOE will happen before then at the rate we're going anyway.

Yes it usually is

As with software you can get competent quickly, but quality comes with time and effort.

Most of those people are making extremely bad life decisions and you will be significantly more wealthy before they've even left college. The best way to make money is to have money, you have a massive edge if you literally just start working early, live with your parents and stay the hell away from debt. It's a simple formula, and it's how I managed to climb my way into the middle-class.

A good thing about blue-collar is that it will make you tough and keep you fit, and you will also learn to socialize properly with people from different generations, as well as being able to absorb whatever experience they might have gained over the decades they've lived.

Knowledge will only become meaningless as a means to pursue wealth, it is still meaningful in terms of understanding the human experience since that relies on perception, and only humans posses and will ever posses human perception.