YouTuber Jake Paul, is offering youngsters incredibly controversial advice, to drop out of school and join him in his new enterprise. He is calling his new venture, "The Financial Freedom Movement," and it alleges to offer his fan base the tools on how to successfully bypass the school system, and make a lot of money online, away from the tradition 9-5 job. He claims that the online course will be conducted by "millionaire instructors," who will guide those enrolled, on how to use social media and the internet, to make their financial dreams come true.
Of course, it goes without saying, that the course comes at a fee. Paul has placed a letter on the website for children to give their parents, which attempts to outline what their children will gain, in return for the $20 per month, which they will have to stump up for their children to partake in the course. He has stated that, alongside the millionaire coaches, he will personally offer weekly live video coaching calls. He claims that these will aid children in achieving his level of social media success.
To convince his audience (and their parents) of his plans, he uses student debt statistics and government brainwashing ideology, to make his points. He is quoted as saying, "They tell us to go to college, get a job, retire at 65. How’s that working out for us? There’s over one trillion dollars in student loan debt, and people with outdated education, who can’t even get a job [to pay] for the student loans they took out, that now haunt them for life." He argued that college courses offer graduates outdated and irrelevant skills for the workforce.
He took to Twitter, to share his dissatisfaction with the education system, and to promote his venture. He captioned a text filled picture, noting his feelings of dissatisfaction, and giving examples, "Our education system is worthless i’m fed up if I die i want to die having made a REAL difference on the world." The tweet, which gathered over 16,000 likes and over 1,000 retweets, received lots of carefully measured comments, pointing out how damaging and one sided his views were, and also how much he needed the education system due to his poor use of grammar throughout the tweet and the picture.
It appears that Paul is again courting controversy, by trying to persuade children not to finish their education. Furthermore, the chances of similar levels of internet super stardom, and making the money that he does, are incredibly slim. A lot of parents would unlikely support their children undertaking his coaching, and especially dropping out of school to do it. He could definitely use his influence for something more productive.