if you're not leftist when you're young, you have no heart. if you're leftist when you're old, you have no brain.

i think that in order for society to be functional, there must be academic elitism. i came from a poor working-class family and rose from there to become the first academically oriented person in my family. i believe that you will end up in disadvantage if you don't want to educate yourself and generally take responsibility for your life.

i understand the disadvantage of young people. for example, young people still have many adversities in their lives, which they experience for the first time in their lives and they feel that they cannot get over them, which causes mental health problems. i know what it's like, i have suffered from depression and anxiety disorder all my youth. been on a disability pension and under guardianship due to my mental health problems. but the older a person gets, the more a person should already have the psychological resilience to survive new adversities. that's why i think that the older a person is, the less i understand why people don't do anything even for mental health reasons. you should not run away from your traumas forever.

the older a person gets, the more he should know how to solve problems and the choices between responsibility and hedonism start to be emphasized even more, because you should know the better and you should know what is the responsible choice. society should not save people from their own hedonism, but leave them to suffer the consequences of their own foolish choices.

i say this quite directly, i don't feel any kind of sympathy, especially in finland, towards the disadvantaged. in finland, people graduate from primary school without being able to read, count and write. even then, these people say that school is exhausting and that they can't make social progress because of it. we live in a time where information about any matter is more freely available than ever before. in this matter, you can no longer refer to the segregation of schools, because all people who own a smartphone can search for information on the internet. with this, that responsibility is transferred to the student himself more than ever before. you can no longer blame the teachers or the school for the poor quality of teaching, but anyone can educate themselves by looking for information on the internet and reading books.

in my experience with my working-class background, i say that no person who belongs to the working class or the lower class for the rest of his life has ended up in his position against his will. yes, i have been told many times to my face that going to school and educating yourself is pointless. if you want to not study and do crappy work for minimum wage, then you shouldn't be surprised why your job is rough and why you are poor. poor people are poor because they have a shitty attitude towards learning and that keeps them too stupid to become successful.

even if there is structural unemployment in a certain profession or field, it is still the individual's own fault if he is not employed. a person always has three choices in that situation. the first option is to change the field. another option is to become an entrepreneur. the third option is to academically educate yourself in your field so far that you become a researcher. all these have in common that you must have a positive attitude towards learning. usually the long-term unemployed are so stupid that they don't even bother to find out which industries are hiring. you can never become an entrepreneur if you don't do market research. you cannot become a researcher if you are not interested in anything. that's how you end up in disadvantage if you're stupid and intellectually lazy. that's why it's hard for me to feel sympathy for them.

leftism is not about helping the poor, but about the fact that losers who have no competence/qualification and thus no right to resources/power, want those resources/power using the poor as a pretext. i know that from my own life. guess what the leftists will do, if the poor will do well and become more successful? that ex-poor gets thrown under the bus. oh, i thought you wanted the poor to do better in life? why are you jealous? why don't you congratulate him? probably because they don't really want to help that poor person, they want to use him as a suffering porn so that the losers can continue to pose with their victim mentality and do nothing productive with their lives.

this is why i say that the first step to success in life is to not hang out with leftists and to never support leftism again. it's hard to succeed in life if the people around you will hate you if you succeed. make friends, yeah, they're not your friends. a real friend doesn't get jealous, if you're doing well. a real friend will be happy for you and support you.