LUH 3417
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You still don’t get that all those professionals you list don’t “produce” anything of value from their own hands and minds. Doctors are protocol technicians for the CDC, pilots fly planes. I have a friend who is a pilot who smoked the most weed I know out of anyone in my life and just quit before he started flight school. What’s your point? He still doesn’t produce anything. He makes decent money flying for pawn shop owners and private business execs otherwise he might make $40k with American Airlines. What do realtors produce? Most are slumlords. Do you live with anyone who builds, grows or actually creates anything? Sounds like a really boring neighborhood.Right. Even if you take on tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt you are not guaranteed an income that allows you to pay off your loans and have an upper middle class life with family, house, good neighborhood etc. There are plenty of financially ruined or struggling md’s, jd’s,phd’s etc.
But those degrees pay off for some, and they make up the upper middle class in the nice cities. I live in a nice north side Chicago neighborhood. Walkable, great public transit, restaurants, music venues, etc. All the homeowners in this area are doctors, lawyers, engineers, tenured faculty (making six figures plus), etc. Some business, real estate, and finance guys. A commercial pilot. They have families and their kids go to some of the few great public schools in the city. They lead the kind of life that used to be much more to be more common. Most have wealthy family backgrounds but not tremendously so. Single family homes all around a million. Everyone is normal weight and healthy. Most drink. None smokes pot.
Here’s Gallup research on marijuana use. Only 3% of postgraduates use pot. Only 10% of people earning more than 100k. I bet that percentage is smaller for people earning 300k+
Marijuana Use Similar to New Lower Rate of Cigarette Smoking
I’m not saying that upper middle class life is better than others. At all. I’m just pointing out that 1) unless you inherit millions from your parents, being “productive” is only way to do the umc life, and 2) cannabis use does not seem to be positively correlated with productivity.
the fact that you rely on a study about pot smoking for stats is also laughable. It’s not something every low level people manager wants to necessarily advertise to their neighbors lest it ruin their veneer reputation.
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