Indispensable Skills Everyone Needs Moving Forward
178: Ignore these at your own peril in the years to come
Well another week is kicking off and we wanted to make sure to provide an Arb Letter that will help the majority of our readers.
We focus a lot on news and societal updates that unfortunately are trending in the wrong direction. It can be a bit much sometimes and for that reason we want to ensure we are balancing out the issues we bring forward and cover with solutions that actually work.
We covered the beginning of this topic in our Masculinity in 2023 post but feel that it merits an expansion into the actual skills and assets we feel everyone should be capable of and/or own.
With the current state of the world and the United States changing quickly we felt it would be good to go through several skills that we believe will be indispensable to make it through the hard times to the other side of a recession or sustained down period for the global economy, and I don’t mean theoretical recessions, I mean actual long sustained periods of depression where people lose their jobs, homes, the dollar crashes, and general chaos ensues from lack of accessibility to traditional food, services, and accommodations.
Make no mistake — people are going to fall behind financially, physically, socially, and mentally in the coming years and months but that doesn’t mean you need to be a part of that group.
By committing to learning and getting better at the concepts we will cover today you can make sure you are a swiss army knife of capability. It pays to check your ego at the door when we talk about these different skill areas so that you can be sure to take on the form of sponge and learn everything possible to gain and edge.
A large contingency of your peers will fall victim to short term pleasure, vanity, hedonism, and impulse — choosing to party endlessly with no goals, consume to their hearts content, and bear no mind to the slow but sure decline of our social structures and the global order.
Furthermore - even more people are going to fall into a rather simple devious trap and we feel for them since it’s certainly more appealing on paper than being forced to get better and grow to make it through the coming storm.
The days of working a single corporate job, retiring comfortably, having access to everything and every product you want, flawless operation of domestic services and businesses, free money handouts, and no consequences are over. Reality is here now.
The cushy, corporate, domestic, and soft world that has been created by years of affluence and economic expansion in the United States is going to shift — it already is as we watch:
Layoffs increase
Our economy on the edge of a massive depression/recession
Inflation remain stubborn
More countries move off the dollar
Fewer jobs and ways to make money
Growing social unrest, violence, and wanton crime
World War III brewing
Hyper partisan balkanization of the US (left vs. right)
A lack of national identity and common ground
We were right about the Pandemic/Vaccine, right about the mass censorship by our government online, and right about the less than virtuous intentions of the dangerous war our military industrial complex and corrupt politicians are fueling in Ukraine.
We are right about this as well. Instead of getting angry or coping like most normal people will saying things like:
You’re crazy man everything’s fine!
Nice tin foil hat!
Stay in your lane man!
Turn off then news psycho!
It’s not that bad
Things will get better!
Try sitting down and running through the global and macro indicators I have listed out. Ask yourself how they possibly rectify or get better without a massive implosion, collapse, or violent unrest.
Short answer is they don’t.
Now we’ll talk through the skillsets we see as the ultimate hedge against these broader conditions. These skills will pay off regardless of how long things stretch out or how bad conditions get.
Get better this week instead of just praying for the weekend to come so you can face some bud lights and watch nature documentaries until 3am.
Let’s get it.