jpenny2 posted... Spoilers: Phil wins in the end.
This is honestly a misconception, it's more like Phil hasn't lost yet. But Phil hasn't been winning at all:
-Lost all his friends
-Only has contact with his parents as far as family goes
-Is so fucking paranoid that he rarely leaves the house
-Hermit lifestyle
-Is closing on 40, looks like 50
-Bad with finances
-Literally bankrupt
-No back-up plan
-Loveless/sexless marriage
-No marketable skills
-Useless degree
-No enjoyment from his job
-No prospects
I mean, if everything goes tits up, and it will eventually, Phil can't find any jobs other than burger flipping. He may believe that he can find a job at Boeing (and I think he truly believes this), but the last decade he hasn't garnered any relevant job experience and he would fucking fail a background check, and you better believe there will be one, since Boeing has a military contract.
He has a degree which he hasn't done anything relevant since he left school.
His age is going to be a huge detriment, and anything just googling Phil Burnell will find so much shit on him that they will likely refrain from hiring him. In an unlikely case he does get hired, I don't expect it to last, because I am going to assume (and I may be wrong) that working with Phil is going to be an absolute nightmare.
Phil's best bet is that IF he wants to have any prospects beyond streaming till that ship sinks, is start now. Get homeschooled, get a new degree, socialize and build a network. Don't wait till it's too late. Start being pro-active.
I don't wish ill on Phil. But I don't have any sympathy for him either. Everything negative that happens to him, comes from his own action or inaction. He is not perparing for the future, he has no plan B. He pisses on those he relies on to stay afloat and he has no safety net.
Phil is heading towards a major cliff, maybe he isn't going all that fast, but he is driving straight ahead and he is making no attempt to avoid the disaster that is about to come. Typing it all out, it kind of reminds me of that scene in Austin Powers, where he drives a slow as fuck steamroller, and the guard just wont go out of the way and gets flattened in the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4UFQWKjy_I---
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