13 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”

  2. If I sponsor one, can I have it neutered?
    I know it will act like it is already neutered, but sponsorship projects like this work best when they act like chlorine in the gene pool

  3. How apt the parody! This is the generation with the most education and the least ambition. I shouldn’t be so quick to generalize, as there are a few younger people who indeed have drive and passion for something, but they will be the ones to support these “Millennials” from cradle to the grave.

  4. Over-educated under-achievers. That’s because most of their ‘education’ is inconsequential twaddle with no market value.

  6. Not many people who graduate with philosophy degrees get jobs that require a philosophy degree. It’s a very small percent who get the few jobs that only the best and brightest philosophy graduates are qualified for. An ‘average’ philosophy major will be lucky if they get a service job to barely make ends meet, with no chance of starting to pay off their enormous student loan. We need more plumbers, electricians and carpenters, and not more unemployed philosophy majors.

  8. Why shouldn’t a tradesperson have the intellectual capacity to discuss philosophy, or art, or history? It would be foolish to assume that someone with mechanical skills lacks intellectual capacity. A plumber who can discuss art is far more useful and interesting to talk with, than an art critic who wouldn’t know what to do with a spanner.

  9. I am a tradesman and I work withe some very intelligent people who are much more interesting to talk to than most university educated people I know. I am a university educated tradesman, and I know many more tradesmen who are. I finally saw the light in my thirty fifth year and changed career paths. I am doing quite well for myself now.

  10. Wonderful parody.
    However, given the tax and regulation burden we have allowed the parasitic horde to get away with, why would any smart young person embrace working for a living?
    As you are now entering institutional slavery.
    Your master,Kleptocracy Incorporated,Big Government,will take a greater share of the return on your labour that you will ever be “permitted” to keep.
    Over 50% of the return on your labour will be taken, to fund useless,lying parasites.
    Over 50% of your billable hours will be stolen by compliance, regulation and mindless interference.
    If you expand to hire other working people, you become a criminal in the eyes of canadian law, where if you hire a klutz, who kills or injures themselves on your dime,you will face criminal charges.
    What kind of hourly rate should you charge, to compensate yourself as an employer, against the risk of bill C45?
    Remember you cannot buy liability insurance against Criminal Acts.
    So just maybe these young adults, who we love to mock, are showing us something…maybe they have been paying attention.
    Perhaps their young eyes,see reality all too clearly.

  11. Why would any smart young person embrace being an EMPLOYEE ? That’s what your rant is really about. Self employed people are not “institutional slaves” and the valid disadvantages of being an employee that you list do not pertain to self employed professionals.

  12. Speaking as someone with a philosophy degree, it is not the best and the brightest who get the university positions or cegep positions in Quebec where philosophy 101 is compulsory, but the ones who believe or pretend to believe that modern philosophy has value.

  13. Like that Frasier episode where Frasier had a plumber come to his apartment to fix something and found that the plumber was an old classmate. Every time Frasier tried to look down his nose at the plumber and let him know how successful he was as a psychiatrist, the plumber would just off-handedly say something, unconsciously proving that he was way wealthier than Frasier. A must-see episode.

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