While there are many people who are currently in the bottom 50% and will probably stay there; no one is a slave who has to stay there.
My original post (which is somehow unpopular on HN) points this out. I spent my first 30 years in that group and worked my way out of it.
That's like saying not everyone who finds themselves homeless must stay homeless, as if they can just choose to go buy a house.
>I spent my first 30 years in that group and worked my way out of it.
And what did the job market look like over the those 30 years versus today? You probably weren't competing with infinity AI bots at every resume application.
Not here to steal your thunder and deny your individual success story, but the tired "I pulled myself by my bootstraps" doesn't mean anything to the people who are strugling.