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Oh man, that takes us back.  Wayyyy back before Covid, before Ukraine..     it was a simpler time.    A more innocent time..


It was the first time I recognized the true level of learned helplessness and suicidal hopelessness which is endemic to so many members here.  They live with it everyday.  

Fwiw, the greatest irony, is that this happened at the beginning of the greatest hiring boom in aviation history.   Not that it matters for him, but for any of his acolytes who weren't crazy suicidal douch-bags; You could have started pilot training that day, and today, you could be earning $300k flying, and landing jets.   Yes, even white guys.
-provided you had slightly above average intelligence, ambition and not given to despondency.  
It's just a matter of mindset.   When you have no future, why not dedicate your life to achievement, rather than dedicating your life to self pity?     You've got nothing to lose anyway.