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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 183 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Legacy News Media: We literally have no idea why Gen Z has given up on literally everything, has decided to not save for the future, and instead is trying to live and enjoy their life now.

Real World: Dearth of opportunities to make a life for yourself, every industry has reached is maximum zenith and now makes money by wringing pennies out of consumers, you need money to exist anywhere, there are no more places to just be, and the government is clearly corrupt and about to be taken over by a literal fucking fascist party because the other party is full of pussies who don't want to "upset the status quo" and keep letting the fucking fascists get away with shit, because "we have to follow the laws, even the ones that clearly benefit the fascists, passed by fascists. It's the law and if we don't take it seriously, everything falls apart. Sorry that means the fascists will win." Oh, and climate change is about to destroy our ability to even have a functional society.

As a millennial, I'm ready for a fucking dirt nap. Things just keep getting worse and fuck nobody is coming to save me or anyone else. Everyone is so caught up in their own lives and problems no one has the time or effort to give anyone else, meaning we're all suffering alone.

Literally what is even the fucking point of struggling to the natural end of my life? There isn't one.

It didn't have to be this way, but a lot of old selfish pieces of shit decided that it was more important to trash the planet and live the high life during their hayday, and then give all their children and grandchildren a swift kick in the ass and says "Children are our future! I just made that up! Now go fix the fucking messes we made for you! We're not concerned with mass extinction, because we'll be dead and it won't be our problem! Good luck, or not!"

[–] crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Maybe eventually when time marches on and we become the majority (I’m 23) we can make good positive social change. In some ways, while living through it is bad; the hardship and unfairness of the system is preventing the usual trend of people becoming more conservative as they age; so perhaps there is hope for things getting better in the future. We just have to keep trying; we can’t give in to cynicism.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm 32 and no way in hell am I turning conservative. Fuck that we need change and we need it now.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is it is not a generational issue. It's a class issue. Rich millennials, and Gen Z will be no better than the rich Boomers. They will die believing they are just more special than everyone else and that is why they deserve so much more.

Generations won't change shit about who is in charge, sadly.

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[–] qwertyWarlord@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago (33 children)

Alternate viewpoint: We're forged in the fires of adversity. No longer are things easy or handed to us, we make our own road. We learn, teach ourselves, work our passions and figure things out against all odds. We're stronger, wiser and ultimately happier for it, despite outward appearances

[–] xerazal@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 year ago

Stronger? Sure. Wiser? Definitely. Happier? Hell to the no lol

[–] cals11@programming.dev 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah thats cool. But I'd rather be a white dude growing up in the 60s. 🤷‍♂️

Life on easy difficulty.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The saiyan viewpoint, just wait until the weights come off!

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[–] QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Good take, but I think it ignores a lot.

We're stronger, wiser and ultimately happier for it, despite outward appearances

Mainly here. Yes everything people are getting is from their own actions, but it completely ignores the people that haven't gotten anything from the struggle, which is a growing number of people. It also disregards people that don't have the opportunity to carve their own way at all.

There is still a bar that needs to be met to get anywhere, and it is just getting higher in may places. Sure once you hit the bar, you're in a better spot and can see that the struggle paid off, but if you never get to the bar, if you never get to the point of "keeping your head at the water", there is no payoff. These people just get to struggle. That's all there is, and there is only so much of that before the struggle isn't worth the payoff anymore.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Thank you for that speech (sincerely). Tho it feels like the sort of words a commander gives to the troops to rally them & face a battle they will not survive with some dignity and a sense of pride.

Are we not just a buffer for the next gens to get a chance at inheriting any freedom, to get a chance to lead at the right age & change things?

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

All of the baby boomers will be dead within 20 years, maybe then we can make some improvements?

(Sorry mom & dad, nothing personal)

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many of us do you think are gonna be around or capable of it, I'm pushing 40 and I'm fucked, the thought of another 30 years sounds exhausting.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Theres still time to fix things for our children before we die, so theres that.

Hmm, I should go plant a tree or something.

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(Sorry mom & dad, nothing personal)

Retirement and a nursing home are no longer economically feasible and my landlord doesn't allow additional residents, so good luck out there mom & dad.

[–] astar26@ttrpg.network 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Jeez you made me think about how much fucked up shit I've been through.

  1. Publicized school shootings on TV 90s
  2. Watching the second plane crash on live TV on 9/11
  3. Medical trauma 1: had testicular torsion ,went in 12 hours after it started, they tried to untwist it by hand while I was conscious, morphine ain't shit
  4. Medical trauma 2: spontaneous pneumothorax, the ketamine they dosed me with didn't work so that chest tube insertion fucked me up
  5. PMTSD related anxiety and depression
  6. 2 more pneumothorax
  7. 2008 financial crisis
  8. college went well, but first job out of college after I got my computer engineering degree payed a fucking grand total of $51k.
  9. 2016 election
  10. Hit 250lbs
  11. 2019 my highschool sweetheart wife cheated on me
  12. COVID-19
  13. Hit 280 lbs
  14. Jan 6 insurrection
  15. Stagflation
  16. Lost 70lbs because of cutting back on food spending and weightloss medication
  17. discovered my wife sexting the guy she cheated on me with after being in marriage therapy for 4 years
  18. hit 250lbs again

Jesus christ, is this resilience, or are we all so burnt out that we just accept everything getting worse always.

Like I get the joke in Russia is "and then it got worse." But Jesus christ, it can't get worse if it's always bad can it?

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[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

In 20 years. We are working on the speed run.

[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Damn, there’s a lot of angry, self-harm promoting people in this thread. Take care of yourself people. Take it one day at a time. The Earth is still here, for now.

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Earth will always be here. We, on the other hand...

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[–] Slagathor@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Millennials these days:

We are old now.

[–] TinyPizza@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I recognize those dead, glazed over eyes! They look like mine. Oh...

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[–] FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

I'm a millennial, just trying to not let the world's ills bother me now. Life is too short and what you make it.

[–] kubica@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And in ongoing efforts to kill the economy for 5th time.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They'll do it again, I'm sure.

And the government will take our tax dollars and bail them out again, I'm sure of that too.

We'll get nothing except the right to continue to work for minimum wage, and we're expected to thank them for the "privilege" of having a job.

It's a wonderful life.

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[–] mochisuki@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Speak up, call your government reps. Your apathy is what they are counting on to avoid change

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 30 points 1 year ago

Citizens United baby, we were removed from the equation.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Implying they'd give a damn anyway.

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[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Me but green tartan skirt, also I'm a dude.

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[–] chimpo_the_chimp@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That pizza looks delicious. Lots of cheese. Toppings. 🤤

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I liked the anime version better

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can't just say that and not post it lol

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I meant a version where a cosplaying woman is chugging vodka, but can't find it. Just saw it as a common reaction pic on 4chan. I tried to find it, but my wife giving me weird looks stopped me.

I tried to explain it but it didn't help. I'll edit when I am successful.

[–] rosymind@leminal.space 21 points 1 year ago

As a wife myself, this amused me

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, this also explains why we feel over 400 years old.

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