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Source. (zerohedge.com)

What happens with the competent retire, burn out or opt out? It's a question few bother to ask because the base assumption is that there is an essentially limitless pool of competent people who can be tapped or trained to replace those who retire, burn out or opt out, i.e. quit in favor of a lifestyle that doesn't require much in the way of income or stress.

These assumptions are no longer valid. A great many essential services that are tightly bound to other essential services are cracking as the competent decide (or realize) they're done with the rat-race.

The drivers of the Competent Opting Out are obvious yet difficult to quantify. Those retiring, burning out and opting out will deny they're leaving for these reasons because it's not politic to be so honest and direct. They will offer time-honored dodges such as "pursue other opportunities" or "family obligations."

[Source.](https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/what-happens-when-competent-opt-out) > What happens with the competent retire, burn out or opt out? It's a question few bother to ask because the base assumption is that there is an essentially limitless pool of competent people who can be tapped or trained to replace those who retire, burn out or opt out, i.e. quit in favor of a lifestyle that doesn't require much in the way of income or stress. > These assumptions are no longer valid. A great many essential services that are tightly bound to other essential services are cracking as the competent decide (or realize) they're done with the rat-race. > The drivers of the Competent Opting Out are obvious yet difficult to quantify. Those retiring, burning out and opting out will deny they're leaving for these reasons because it's not politic to be so honest and direct. They will offer time-honored dodges such as "pursue other opportunities" or "family obligations."

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Competent people are tired of dealing with stupid people and various corporate bullshit. Dealing with dumbfucks are bad enough but dealing with DIE policies, promotion of faggotry, H1B hires, and other woke trash pushed by your employer just to get a few hundred thousand dollars cut from the tax bill drives the smartest and most capable people out.

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You just saved a bunch of people 200 hours of reading Atlas Shrugged.

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What happens, you ask?

Good times lead to Weak men > Weak men lead to Hard times > Hard times lead to Good men > Good men lead to Good times

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“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

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From Plato's The Republic

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You had the quote wrong in the comment I replied to.

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Already happening. White males are checking out and have been for 2 or 3 years now. The whole (((muh China))) and the Jan 6th lies were just too much.

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The fucked up thing is that the very competent people who pull the strings are engineering this collapse.

They want this.

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even simpler than that. when we have a majority of the population that are "takers" and only receive income from the backs of taxpayers outweighs the portion of the population that are "producers" then we are 100% fucked. we will print money as if it's a substitute for productivity and as the scamdemic showed us this will not work and the economy will collapse short of implementing exotic zero point energy tech.