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"In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. It can’t when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius. Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra — their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment. Average is over."
It's even worse because going to college simply makes you average. You have to spend 4 years and $50,000+ just to be in the running for average. It's fierce competition for almost any career today. Get ahead or you'll be working at Starbucks your whole life.
Personally, I've never understood the the mentality that "average" is where you want to be. And I certainly wasn't raised with pushy, competitive, "tiger-mom" parents.
Personally, I've never understood the the mentality that "average" is where you want to be. And I certainly wasn't raised with pushy, competitive, "tiger-mom" parents.
Considering 90% of people are employed, that means a lot of people are working and below average.
Your ordinary Joe six pack is "average." Average means middle of the road. Go to the mall or the movie theater on any given day of the week and most of the people you will see there walking around are average. These average people generally have an okay car, a small house or apartment, as well as all sorts of electronic junk, and they go shopping on the weekends. The average person does not have a college degree (only 25% of the population does), but yet most average people have disposable money, so I don't think they are doing that badly.
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Go to any mall and look at the parking lot. You will see everything from 1980s beaters with duct tape holding on the side mirrors to Hummers, BMWs and the like. Go inside and you will see people shopping that are on public assistance and those that are making $200k. They all find a way to come up with some money to spend. The biggest difference will be down the road when those that barely scrape by now get old and have no retirement plans, savings, or home to sell. Many retirees struggle now even with a retirement plan.
The "average," unless you're the boss's relative/favorite, are top of the chopping block in tough times. That said, it's a bit much to say it's "over." It isn't as though they disappear after that... just move their average work to another company/role.
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