We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
📝 Lomez on X:
"Zoomers are the first cohort to be fully immersed in the reality of generational downward mobility. While millenials will also earn less than their parents, they were formed under the expectations of America ascending to a kind of Post-History stasis where at worst their status and wealth was permanently locked in.
Zoomers have none of these illusions and rightfully reject the obsolete and facile narratives they’re expected to swallow and obey to make sense of their lives and ambitions. Those are dead narratives. They do not reflect reality at all. They do not reflect the deranged cultural and political circumstances they’re expected to navigate from a position of negative expected value for pretty much any career path outside of genius tech outlier.
Scolding them is a stupid and pointless exercise that will only drive them further into despair and resentment.
Yes. Don’t be resentful. Don’t give in to despair. Be resourceful and lay a claim on your own life. But it’s also going to require offering Zoomers much better and updated narratives and opportunities for how to accrue status and wealth and the basic conditions for living a dignified life for the average guy who is not an outlier tech genius.
There are short, medium, and long term fixes for this. Some straightforwardly political. Some more complex cultural questions. But the implicit promise of boomer America, even Gen X America, is no longer viable, and that broken promise has absolutely nothing to do with Zoomers themselves."
📎 Lomez
Here is the TRUTH: Dangerous gain-of-function research was funded by the U.S. government around the world, directed and approved by people like Dr Fauci. @DNIGabbard exposed that yesterday.
Using U.S. government data, put together and uncovered by career subject matter experts in the Intelligence Community and other government agencies, yesterday’s release highlighted one example of the many overseas biolabs funded by the U.S., the research conducted there, and the significant risks they pose to the world, especially when located in a country at war.
Europe is crippled by two fears that kill massive company creation.
Fear of failure and fear of success.
America turned failure into a badge of honor, a “near-pornographic” obsession with it as proof you’re swinging big.
Europe does the opposite on both counts.
Failure carries shame, and wild success is culturally toxic in social democracies.
Founders building something enormous quickly feel pressure to cash out early rather than dominate.
And the result is plenty of competent mid-sized firms. Almost zero world changing outliers.
No European Google. No Amazon. No Microsoft.
America’s edge has been the reverse, tolerating and rewarding big success while treating failure as data, not disgrace.
That combination built the most dynamic entrepreneurship ecosystem on Earth.
But the European disease is spreading here.
Socialist policies and “eat the rich” culture taking over big cities with punitive taxes on success, regulatory moats, and open disdain for winners are breeding the same...
