[Lord Tito]

(09-06-2015 11:08 PM)Zelcorpion Wrote:  

(09-06-2015 06:29 PM)Dan Woolf Wrote:  

First of all, I really appreciate your posts.

Secondly, could you elaborate on the opportunities lessening-thing: which opportunities for men to climb up the latter are dwindling and why is that? What are the remaining paths?

Don't want to divert the thread here too much.

In short it's rather simple - the above average and industrious man can still open location independent businesses, move abroad, do odd jobs online, climb the corporate ladder etc.

However the environment in most countries except such as China (where currently the world's manufacturing capacity is pooled) the average people are becoming poorer - as seen in rising real unemployment:



This is also seen in falling real wages, labor participation rates, disposable income for the bottom 90%:





http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-11...een-solved



No matter how you put it - less money for the lower 99% means that there is also less opportunities to make money off them on aggregate.

If you are a successful business owner or belong to the better part of the corporate hierarchy, then you will succeed somehow, but there is also more competition for those jobs:



http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-21...ly-economy

Aside from what I mentioned above I might add that there are ways to profit from the refugee influx in all Western countries:

1. Rental properties - cheap, small and central
2. Rental properties for renovation using cheap labor - there are good legal cons out there which let the men sleep at the places that needs renovating and you let them work on their "own apartments"
3. Services which tend to the immigrants - most however are insider companies with strong government connections

There are certainly many other ways to profit from it - where one man sees a problem the other sees an opportunity.

Still - in aggregate Western society is becoming poorer - the media is just lying about it as about most things.

China is the one to watch IMHO. Corruption on a colossal scale, mind boggling and over bearing bureaucracy, inefficient State enterprises that would make Brezhnev era GOSPLAN mandarins blush, a property and credit bubble of gargantuan proportions, coupled with a demographic imbalance of TENS of millions of poor, badly educated, sexually frustrated young men who don't get their leg over from one end of the year to the next all thanks to the insane One Child Policy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3601281.stm

Quote:

China is facing a demographic crisis. It is heading towards becoming a nation of bachelors, with official statistics predicting as many as 40m single men by 2020.

That article is from 2004. Can you imagine what it is like now? Tens of millions of Xiao Mings throughout China, anger and frustration slowly building up inside them, simmering away. When it goes, we wont know what will hit us.

Anyway back on topic, a quote from our old friend, Nicholas Maduro

http://www.rt.com/news/314592-maduro-chi...interview/

Quote:

“By deception, they invaded the country [Iraq] that is a cradle of civilization – and razed it the ground. Now it is literally split into thousands parts and engulfed by terrorism in its cruelest form. Who bombed Libya? Who took the lives of more than 100,000 Libyans? Who is now bombing Syria? Who financed the terrorists that are now seeking to destroy it?”
“The US has caused a real disaster, chaos and now it wants to cause chaos in other regions of the world.”

Nail on the head.