A good 9 to 5 is great if you can get it. Get on a union contract, secure good terms. It's fucking excellent. But there's a lot of 9 to 5s that are 7 to 9pms. Where bosses call you out of hours constantly. Where there's no raises, no promotions and no rewards. Faced with the latter then yeah it's go chase something better by trying to build a business or face financial nihilism.

But of course that's only half the story. The other half is that there is an economy for people selling you the alternative. They make money on convincing you that no 9 to 5 is worth it. That you're a beta cuck if you dare accept a traditional role on the corporate ladder.

Every time some kid gives up on college or bails on trade school to try and buy into crypto, Forex, AI chatbots, OnlyFans pimping, day trading, NFTs, drop shipping, Amazon AI publishing, memecoins or any other grift, scam or scheme - there is an army of Alpha, sigma, self made, self powered, un-tethered, outside of the matrix, big G scam artists selling the shovels to the goldrush.

They're telling you, you're not being conned, you just weren't fast enough this time, not smart enough, you didn't time the market right, buy my course I'll show you what the insiders know, get ripped, get jacked, sleep longer, sleep less, get up early, never stop hustling, you got to secure the bag, you got to be a man, but not too much, get the girl, win the girl, stop chasing girls, be sharp, be blunt, be a hammer, be deft, be this be that so long get fucked fuck off I got mine get yours.