What I find funny about that rant is that his analogizing basically disproves his own point- no, you are not entitled to job in the field in which you have a degree, any more than you are entitled to a mate taylor fitted for you.
I would say it sort of is, only in the sense that it is far prior to when the problem presents itself- by the time one is blossomed into full adulthood I’d say it’s a different problem. The people who are into this didn’t just spring up overnight, they are the totality of years of experiences. Want to stop this? Make sure that your teenage kid (boy or girl) isn’t emotionally torturing the dorky unattractive kid to get status points in front of all their friends who get a good mean laugh out of it. That’s where this shit starts, and it buries people in holes. Once it snowballs, it looks like a million miles and oceans to cross to get to normal. This is why advice like "it’s so easy and simple, just… is totally not helpful, even when it’s correct. If “normal” were possible to grok* for them, they would have taken that path in a heartbeat no questions asked. I think they end up at this sad point because normal doesn’t appear on their radar from the vantage point of the hole they are in.
*I’m using this word in the sense of internalized understanding; Someone can hear someone else all day long giving them advice, but that doesn’t mean they will necessarily be able to do any better than a mere guessing approximation of what’s happening under the hood.
