/dep/ - Depression

Degrees have been quite useless for some time.

We were just born under an unlucky star. The world just hates us by default and there's nothing we can do about it.

>>305798
Not really. The education itself is useless in 95% of western unis. I don't mean to say they teach useless thing, they don't teach you anything at all, literally. But the diploma itself may come in handy sometimes. It's worth having around if you can get it.

>>305797
I'm a Uni flunk out despite having good grades up to high school and I am at the point of no hope when it comes to finding a job. I suppose you can join the military but fuck that. I'm already in my 30s and it's apparent you won't be taken care of judging by the homeless vets around here.
>>305812
Too bad it's hidden behind a paywall. Imagine making half or less of what your parents earned while having to pay up for the PRIVILEGE to wage slave for a mediocre job with no benefits.
>>305813
Exactly.

I graduated with a bachelor's degree several years ago, but honestly it feels like the bare minimum these days. I haven't been able to find a job in my field of study and likely never will.

>>306258
I don't even have a bare minimum as a dropout then. At least I always hated my field and knew I'd never work there, the only cope I got.

I did a year of math in uni and got quite high grades before intentionally dropping out and seeking neetdom. Also had some health issues. There is nothing you can do with a math degree except teach at high school or uni. The meme of some quant guy making lots of money is just a meme and is rare and requires further specialisation after getting a maths degree. Anyway I just avoid working altogether and will hang myself if I get into trouble, money or health wise

>>305797
hone your artist skills and draw gratuitous and conspicuous stuff

>>306260
How old are you?

>>306260
>There is nothing you can do with a math degree except teach at high school or uni.

You used to be able to get software developing jobs pretty easily with a Math degree during the boom periods, but I think that's gone now.

>>306260
>There is nothing you can do with a math degree except teach at high school or uni. The meme of some quant guy making lots of money is just a meme and is rare and requires further specialisation after getting a maths degree.

It's like this for everything man. Nowadays there are so many people and so little things that need a solution that unless you are some top1% gigabrain you are fucked.
If not fucked currently, then in the future where menial jobs disappear, and even mid-skill stuff is beyond reach for most.
Pain is coming…

>>306272
? IT bros told me when every job is done by robots and there's no more need for work they'll just give free money (UBI) to everyone to people could continue consuming

>>305797
Do you have any coverage from welfare schemes or unemployment schemes or something, I hope you do, you used the "$" sign so your country is likely developed and I hope that you make it.

>>306282
if robots do everything we will reach levels of efficiency where most things would be free, there’s no need for universal basic income if all necessities are produce at near 0 cost. this is the only hope for humanity, the other option is simply civil war and mass extinction

>>306282
>>306291
Ironically once we reach that point is when hell on earth is going to start.
Despite what many people think in the modern age, not all is equal and not everyone is some global citizen.

The second we reach that level of automation is the second the forever wars start.
To cull the useless eaters, to keep the people in line that no longer have to worry about the rat race that kept them in trance, to fight with other countries for the resources needed to maintain this "utopia".

Conflict will be the way of life. 1984 style. They are already laying the groundworks for it with the internet lockdowns, IDs for internet use to ensure no freedom of information, major geofencing with the EU trying to make a Chinese firewall (I work at a major ISP and it's been in the works for a while now, pretty much every ISP knows about this), so is the US.
A second aspect is the AI nonsense that flooded the web, further smoke and mirrors in the golden cage.

You wont even know what is really happening. You already don't. I'm scared as fuck. Misery will be the new norm since that is the best way to control people in this post-scarcity world.

>>306292
Well at least i hope with the massive culling things will be peaceful