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I'm on the oldest edge of Gen Z, 27 year old here.
I can maybe handle my parents promising a good life for me before rug pulling that. Well, I can't and that's one of the many reasons why I have mental health issues.
I don't think they could have predicted 3 economic crashes in my life before I turn the age they conceived me.
It's just profoundly sad that there are people who were raised for this planet and the planet has changed fundamentally in the last 20 years alone. The technology, the temperature, the expected job market, the ability to own even basic things, the political climate.
Most people on Lemmy were raised with a bright future that has been dimmed each passing year. The only light we have are those we are close to.
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Chaos is a Ladder.
But its a ladder that periodically collapses when you're halfway up and leaves you splayed out on the sidewalk in horrible pain and with five digit hospital bills.
Jokes on you! I’m 37! 🥺😢😭
I’m about to turn 39. I just want a home or apartment of my own. Why is this happening? Why did the stupids get so powerful?
It's not the stupids, but the greeds first and foremost. You can look back at the greedy mf's that started every single thing and they weren't punished.
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Why is this happening? Why did the stupids get so powerful?
This isn't unique to the modern moment. Your parents called their elders stupid. Alphas will call Millennials stupid. But if we want to get to the real disparity between ideologies - the reason so many people are getting MAGA pilled in the face of seemingly obvious disaster - it really does just boil down to our mass media poisoning our brains.
Fifty years of misinformation, con-artistry, and industrial scale commercial fraud has given birth to a population that is simultaneously desperate for a White Knight to come save them and so steeped in cynicism that they accept idiots and assholes in power as the best we're capable of doing. Whether its Trump or Biden, Bezos or Musk, Wolf Blitzer or Alex Jones, there's this baseline understanding that "My guy might suck but the other guy is so much worse".
And the deadliest poison of them all is the pride - the implicit assumption that you can't trust anyone but yourself because you're surrounded by morons. We're increasingly alienated from one another and exposed to manipulation by computerized algorithms A/B testing us for our biases. Divided from one another, with our hatreds toward The Other inflamed while our access to basic necessities increasingly gated, we're pushed into deeper and more vulgar polarized camps micro-managed by demagogues and other influencers.
"The Stupid" is just the fear - of our looming poverty, of our dangerously polarized neighbors, of declining health and diminished free time. It's not idiocy, its anxiety. We're acting rashly because we all seem to know we're being boxed in for the slaughter and none of us trust anyone else to recognize that we need to work together to escape it.
Because our priorities are wrong
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Now imagine being born in Europe around 1910
Becomes firstborn of the king of England: were you saying, serf?
Double the inflation, unemployment and triple the crime for the 80s and 90s. Worked multiple jobs and ate powdered milk with puffed rice song with potatoes to survive. Waaagh
I'm tired, boss
I feel this. My beard and hair have about half as much grey as the meme and I'm still a few years from 35. I want off Mr Bones' Wild Ride
I’ll be 42 in a few weeks, I’m tired of living through these “once in a lifetime events” every 24-48hrs.
"May you live in interesting times." -Wayne Gretzky