rant · moment 12 of 28
His College Regret and the Vice-Documentary Dilettante Class
from Lame Duck Donald & The Immigration Nation | The Tim Dillon Show #470 · #470
4 min
He reflects on not going to college himself, then rips into college grads who chase meaningless creative-adjacent media jobs (like Vice documentaries) while drowning in debt, calling it the setup for the "final indignity" of Chinese competition for jobs.
- Tim regrets not attending college, feels he lacks authority to comment on that part of American experience.
- College graduates have nothing to do except move to New York City and attend protests.
- Without enough wars, angry college graduates are stuck at home, and the country keeps importing workers for jobs they should fill.
- The 'do what you love' advice is a lie; Tim tells someone asking about tech versus history to sacrifice themselves to Peter Thiel's AI demon instead.
- The president says America needs Chinese and Indian workers because the college system would collapse otherwise, despite college being a main reason people carry decades of debt.
- Society pushed people away from plumbing and trade work toward becoming dilettantes in meaningless creative media fields like Vice documentaries about animals near Chernobyl.
- Everyone who wanted to sit in an air-conditioned room at Vice having opinions is now loaded with student loan debt and in serious trouble.
- The final indignity for this class is Chinese workers arriving and stepping on their fingers as they fall from the building.
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