Originally Posted by gabcd86

But what does it solve? Making yourself more marketable to employers? Making yourself more attractive to women? With the economy the way it is becoming, there aren't enough jobs to go around, and not everyone has some "selling point". I mean, he quoted the film throughout, but what are we supposed to 'close'?

The only interest in the article, the "get off your arse and do something" is so general and weak as to be of no value whatsoever. The whole point is that 'something' either doesn't pay the bills, or just isn't there.

I mean, would a good business advice article be "sell something"?

Originally Posted by Arby911

You sound like one of the whiners he's speaking directly to...

Ok, so there aren't enough jobs to go around. SO WHAT?

I don't need jobs for everyone, I just need one for me, and to get that I just have to be more marketable than the other guy...and you.

FFS!

Originally Posted by leeb rocks

I guess that does technically make you the Che to my Fidel if it makes you feel better

Originally Posted by gabcd86

Jesus, what a ****ing insight. So, to get a job I need to be better than the competition? Well I never.

The article gives nothing of any value.

Anyway, this stupid right-wing narrative of competition and individualism is short-sighted and unhelpful. If everything is up to the individual, you ignore the broader structural, societal factors that create the conditions which lead to mass unemployment and general unfulfilment.

Obviously, at the end of the day, you have to do what you have to do to get ahead, but that's not really any sort of revelation, is it? And yeah, I'm a whiner. In societies of unprecedented abundance and wealth, people are going hungry, and all this tool has to offer is "learn karate. CLOSE!". Cheers.

Originally Posted by Arby911

I get it, you don't get it.

Get used to masturbating in your mom's basement and wishing things were 'fair'...

Originally Posted by leeb rocks

I guess that does technically make you the Che to my Fidel if it makes you feel better

Originally Posted by Arby911

Get used to masturbating in your mom's basement and wishing things were 'fair'...

Originally Posted by Mister.Y

What bothers me is that he professes this as the one and only truth about the world. The article has the tone of a sermon, he is basically preaching. It does not allow other world views. He disintegrates people with their hopes, dreams, desires into the language of a marketplace. In"What You Produce Does Not Have to Make Money, But It Does Have to Benefit People" he uses ''a woman'' as an example. His examples do not reach further than a job(/money) and women, which he seems to equate with happiness. You have to conform to these rules (''How can I become the type of person employers want?", "How can I become the type of person that pretty girls like?") instead of constructing your own idea of success, which might be different for everyone. Society might end up slightly happier if it didn't encourage success.

He emphasizes that you must change yourself the way society, businesses, 'women' want you to change, which I think is a sure way of losing touch with yourself and making it seem like you're a failure. I think doing things that resound with your own sense of joy is a better way of getting out of a period of feeling down. He addresses this to people who are not satisfied in some way. Let's view this as mild form of depression. I have some experience/knowledge on the matter, this being my fourth year in college studying psychology. When people come to a psychologist, the things the author of the article sums up as important only scratch the surface, successful businessmen might find themselves unsatisfied despite of their success. And here the view of the person himself is important, not in what way he does or does not conform to any standard of success. The author seems not to believe in a change of perspective.

On the other hand, tips he gives in the article might be useful to some people, he emphasizes own responsibility, which I think is a good thing (although there are people whose problems are out of their control).

Originally Posted by gabcd86

But what does it solve? Making yourself more marketable to employers? Making yourself more attractive to women?

Originally Posted by Ian_the_fox

You're not girly enough of a boy for me, and you're not man enough to take the top. So like, sorry bitch but you ain't mine! Sorry.

Originally Posted by SlinkyBlue

The solution is simple and obvious.

We revolt against ourselves. Mass suicide. The ultimate revolution.

Originally Posted by gabcd86

But what does it solve? Making yourself more marketable to employers? Making yourself more attractive to women? With the economy the way it is becoming, there aren't enough jobs to go around, and not everyone has some "selling point". I mean, he quoted the film throughout, but what are we supposed to 'close'?

The only interest in the article, the "get off your arse and do something" is so general and weak as to be of no value whatsoever. The whole point is that 'something' either doesn't pay the bills, or just isn't there.

I mean, would a good business advice article be "sell something"?

Originally Posted by ali.guitarkid7

You can stretch gays

Originally Posted by Hydra150

my mum occasionally works like six different guys

Originally Posted by TooktheAtrain

Well, altruistic spirit and empathy are prerequisites for positive action. That 'crap' you're talking about is fertile ground for action. (crap, as a matter of coincidence, happens to be a very good fertiliser)

Originally Posted by gabcd86

Really? If life's problems could be solved by learning karate, we'd be living in a far more pleasant world.

Originally Posted by Deliriumbassist

It really is some Copernicus ahit.