having "mental toughness" to get yelled at at bootcamp has nothing to do with whether jobs with reasonable salaries are available in the labor market. i can't "drop and give me 50" a middle class salary out of thin air. your analogy is peak boomer bullshit. had jobs not been available to you lot, if you actually are a nam vet and not stealing valor from your peers, you would have revolted using your "bootstraps" training just like some vets did after wwii.
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