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I saw an article discussing the Great washout of the tech job market. Once an industry that presidents, billionaires, and other prominent people boasted as the pathway to success is no longer.

It speaks volumes when tech majors are struggling more than art history majors. I have come to wonder, has the software engineer the new aspiring "artist" or musician? You know those career paths that are highly unrealistic where people laugh when you tell them? Like "yeah, I want to be the next studio artist for Disney" or some shit like that.

Meanwhile, the middle class is being pulverized and destroyed. Once the beacon of prosperity of the "American Dream" is becoming less and less likely to obtain, especially for younger generations.

I grew up in a typical upper-middle-class family. The two-story family home in a mostly-white subdivision neighborhood with the community pool, attending top-notch schools, and riding in the family SUV. The baseball team, boy scouts, and my regular doctors visits became a common routine as a child. We were able to eat out at modest places after church. The pantry full of food. You know what I mean.

It seems this lifestyle will never be obtainable in my lifetime. My grandparents were wealthy, my parents were strong upper class, my generation is struggling to even afford an apartment or trailer. It is like kicking a can down a road, getting more and more beat up.

The obvious answer is “no” but hear me out:

I go visit my family for a few weeks after being away for quite a while.
I find out my younger brother of one year is practically juggling two women and playing the long game with both in hopes of getting one to be his girlfriend

Woman A is gorgeous, she’s also into him, they hooked up once already, he likes her too, it’s great. But she’s a little toxic

Woman B is a “rebel” with the tattoos and the metal bands and the easy going lifestyle with promiscuity and drugs and whatnot
She’s not into him at all.
He wants her, but isn’t settled on it.

Then I come on for a while and Woman B is all over me.
Under any other circumstance I would’ve spent half the vacation in a bed with her.

So I restrain myself as the good brother.
But I can’t help but wonder if I’m doing the right thing.

My brother has every reason to want woman A and she wants him too.
And yet he’s created this needless friend-zone wrinkle with woman B and it’s going nowhere (and I don’t think it should considering her lifestyle)

Part of me wants to fuck the socks off of woman B and I can’t deny it to myself.
I get the appeal but I wouldn’t date her long term. And she doesn’t want that either clearly.

So what would you do given this scenario?
Please give some reasoning and detail