I feel especially bad for the immigrant gen-z.
Imagine you just fled a political dictatorship with your family, and now you watch a new political dictatorship form but with AI and racism.
At like fucking 15.
No need to imagine. I am that guy.
I’m Gen Z, was born in China after the CCP failed to terminate me under the One Child Policy, which resulted in my birth. Parent had to pay a massive fine for my existence. Even politics aside, economy was shit at the time, hard for my parents to find stable jobs. My mom told me that work was just brutal, I remember my maternal grandmother had to take care of us often times because both parents were either at work or looking for work from morning to late at night.
Government is so corrupt, they didn’t even enforce food safety regulations (not even sure if such regulations even existed). I remember my mom constantly warning us about food safety. Also you need to boil the water cuz its toxic. Steets were dirty, well at least the neighborhood I used to live in. Other areas might have it better.
Hukou system meant that since my parents were from rural areas, they didn’t have all the rights of someone living in the city. Even though me and my older brother were born in the city. So the city didn’t even allow us into their public schools.
And if we had stayed in the country, it’d be a struggle to get outside information. Like not just for political information and stuff (which honestly, probably doesn’t even matter when you’re struggling and you can’t change the system), but most importantly the entertainment would be limited, anything considered anti-government would be much harder to find, if not impossible, in mainland China. Unless you get lucky and somehow, as a local, manage to find a VPN if you never stepped foot outside the country. (Not sure if I’d even find out what a VPN is if I remained in the country)
Like imagine you’re under a “rat race” for money then you go home and can’t find anything interesting to watch, because its “too political” and blocked.
So yay, jumping from one boiling pot to another. Life is amazing! The universe do love its trolling.
(Tbf life did get better in the US, for us, at least from around 2014 to now. But I’m now more of fearing for the future, such as a Chinese Exclusion Act v2: Electric Boogaloo)
I have a family member to whom this happened three separate times during their youth. They are fairly unsurprised by what is going on in the US as it’s all very familiar for them.
This must be a mistype, here I fixed the meme
Didn’t the US federal government close the loophole that allowed Delta 8 THC to be sold?
I really worry about the younger generations, they’re growing up in a toxic landscape of end stage capitalism. I’m worried they’ll think this is normal like a kid in an abusive household. This isn’t normal, this is beyond reproach in how abnormal it is. Please, fight with us.
Xennial putting up with Reagan onward:
It also looks like they’ll be the right age for WW3 deployment
DUDE DONT JINKS IT 😭
JINKSJINXLol I’ve only heard it said by classmates in school, it’s not like they spell it out.
You can fly robots and shit like in the video games. It’s not like it used to be…
If war was supposed to be a video game, you could play chess and get it over with. But that’s not how wars are fought. People have to die in a war.
Boomers had it good.
Gen X had it mediocre.
Millenials and Gen Z have been shafted.
Given the state of education, economy, and politics, Alpha is straight up doomed.
As a millennial I’m going to lose my shit if they try to draft my only child after the shitshow I’ve survived
Get in or you’re antisemitic
LOL
I would absolutely no shame in claiming Bone Spurs, or shooting myself in the foot to get out of a war for Greenland…
This is my first time reading the phrase, “age of enjoyment.” I guess I wasn’t ever meant to know that I missed out entirely?
Just in time for the age of deployment.
I graduated college last year and I’m still in unemployment hell. I have a CS degree so now I’m too overqualified for retail and too underqualified for tech jobs, despite the fact that I have made numerous projects and have tried my best to upskill, I’m still not good enough apparently. It is super frustrating and demotivating to wake up to rejection emails month after month after month.
If you’re good at tech and can talk to people. Look for Sales Engineer and Solution engineering roles. We can’t be replaced by Ai in these roles. Yet.
We’re better off beheadding wealthy people until we get a UBI
Lol, what in the fuck is the “age of enjoyment” ?
I mean, the math isn’t hard here, given the obvious pandemic time marker: College aged. If you were born in 2000, you couldn’t, in the middle of a pandemic, go out to the bar with friends for a drink on your 21st birthday for instance. And just generally, people’s early 20s often slowly ramp up, a fun warm up to proper adulthood; a time where expenses are at the lowest they’ll be for the rest of your entire life and the world hasn’t beaten you down mercilessly yet; so yeah, I imagine some of that what OP meant.
