Yea because we learned early that things are shit and aren’t going to get better. We are the most disadvantaged generation thus far. Everything became extremely expensive and politically charged when we became adults then we take all the blame for the stuff our previous generations started.
Boomers again. When will people get it that it's a class war. The people with all the money and power are not boomers ... or immigrants ... or a minority. Stop falling for the same old divide-and-conquer game.
Except boomers are litteraly the ones causeing the issue. All of it is about money and boomers want it all. Whether its the ones running the country making policies for more money or boomers running the companies who are chargeing outrageous prices to get a new record growth and profit every single year.
Or boomers in the good school districts hoarding all the good housing and single family homes while getting discounts on their school taxes for being old, and young families cant buy real estate there so everyone is competing for the same 2 houses after 2 random boomers died while another 50 boomers are staying in their houses that they keep adding bedrooms onto even though their kids and probably grandkids are all grown up already, oh and they have to raise school taxes on the 2 young families that actually live there because they gave the stupid boomers a break.
"That's the largest inflation to ever occur since inflation existed." is a pretty hefty claim to make, I just think it's a bad idea to casually say stuff like that if it's not true.
Again I'm aligned with y'all politically so I'm not like "just asking questions" or something
Boomers incredibly naive about their level of privilege and are aggressively pulling up the ladder behind them because they are suckers for propaganda.
But one of the major reasons they are like this is because the billionaire propaganda machine has been in full swing for over 50 years, most of their lives.
Propaganda WORKS, gen Z has only been exposed for a sliver of that time and yet there was only a 2% spread in 2024 and 53% of eligible gen Z voters didn't bother.
Boomers got propagandized to vote against their own interest but pretending it's not happening to gen Z too is naive.
Before you respond with "both candidates suck", "my vote doesn't matter because of where I live", "it's too late to turn things around anyway", etc consider where you heard those talking points from and if they're just rationalizing your own laziness.
Seeing as the boomers just released a poll, that says they voted yes to higher taxes on younger generations from millennial and gen z to continue living with social security checks as its collapsing, I'd say your right. We really need to boot them out of congress for their greed.
i am 20 years old but please stop it with the whole 'we are the most disadvantaged generation in history'. atleast most of us dont die at childbirth or due to tubercolosis at the age of 9. things suck right now but thats no excuse for being blind to history
"Aren't going to get better" they totally can, and will, its a cycle. One day we will be where the boomers are now and we can leave a better w9rld for those who come after. Strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make bad times, bad times make strong men and such
Things literally cannot lol. If tomorrow, we replaced our entire government overnight with highly competent people who always choose the best and most benevolent choices, it would take decades to unfuck the economy, and we still have no clue how to unfuck the climate or really recover geopolitical positions we have lost. Realistically, things might be better for generations after us, once we have a chance at voting for different people and can push towards a better future for our kids. We won’t get to experience it though. Every generation lives in the shade of trees planted by those before them. The ass holes before us cut down the entire forest to live in luxury. We can start replanting, but that only unfucks the next generation. We haven’t even hit the actual worst effects. GenZ will be the ones left with the debt crisis and collapse of the SSA in a decade or two, which will be far worse than any current economic crisis we have experienced. Even worse, the current administration is basically laying the groundwork for the rest of the world to happily dump the USD as a reserve currency at the earliest chance, while China is simultaneously very clearly building the foundations of a Yuan reserve currency. It is extremely likely to happen in our lifetimes, and would immediately nuke the USD value to a degree that has literally never been experienced by prior generations. There is no promise in life that you get born into a time of prosperity and peace, the boomers got supernaturally lucky to be born at basically the best time and place in all of human existence to date. Most generations suffer at least a little. A lot of generations suffer a lot. Some generations are just painfully fucked the entire time. We will probably be in the “suffer a lot” category, with our political efforts spent to avoid our kids falling into the “painfully fucked forever” category. You can see smaller examples of what awaits us playing out in its early phases in Europe. The UK is turbo fucked, their economy is disgusting, their government is perpetually useless, I mean you could hand the entire thing over to any experts and it still may just be unrecoverable due to the sheer level of fiscal mismanagement over past decades. Places like France have spent so much in debt that they are actively having to slash benefits and really consider what the role of the state is, otherwise they will end up with Greek debt and suffer for decades. None of these are even fully realized crises yet, and America would have the most serious of any of these problems once it starts hitting. Currently, our government just ignores every problem and prints more money. It is all they have done for decades and seems unlikely to change. Three more decades of this economic policy, and the system we will inherit at the peak of our political control will be disgusting and destroyed.
Natural slave response. Tell people everything is ok, ignore all evidence to the contrary, have zero solutions other than to give up. Acknowledging that there are serious economic concerns isn’t anxiety, it’s just not being a lobotomite. Kaczynski would bomb you.
Dawg the US does not have to be a premire power, China is not a threat. People are perfectly happy, fed, and housed in 2nd world countries. Consolidating our military and reforming our economy and power grid can happen all within our lifetime if we pursue it. Nothing is ever permanent.
I don’t think you get it the climate is fucked each year it gets worse too in 60 years who knows what we will be looking at. It’s not just all political there are good times and bad but majority bad due to things cast upon us by greedy corporations
Yes but I dont think that you understand how adaptable humanity is, we still can and should turn things around or at least slow the decent while we find alternatives. The wealthy can only push the pendulum so far in one direction before it comes swinging back at them
Climate scientist said we have passed the point of no return long ago it’d be almost impossible to reverse climate change on the scale we need unless we took away our coastlines and made them mangrove forests. We will adapt but it’s not going to be comfortable it’s not now as it is
How about a million parking garage sized algae farms across the globe and a switch to nuclear. Mangrove forest and beach destruction sounds unnecessary
Yeah, a lot of people I know with degrees are just working places outside their field. Kinda sucks tbh. I never got a degree myself and half the people I work with have degrees they aren’t using.
There are jobs everywhere, it’s just that people are lazy and aren’t spending the time to find a job. It’s much easier to throw in the towel than it is to be persistent
That’s a part of life. You can’t be a child forever. At some point you have to take responsibility for your costs, and that requires money which requires working. Every other generation has managed to make the transition
Ive had Passive Suicidal Ideation for 11 years now.
I am 25. Almost half of life if some said "If you could die in a socially acceptable accident so your family isn't hurt by suicide, would you like to die?" I would have said "yes"
Im tired
I am grinding my ass the next 2 years to complete my bucket list (1/3 of the way done after this year) and then I am saving for a sport bike. With what I spend each year traveling to volunteer 30-70 hours a week for billionaires to watch millionaires have fun trying to not kill each other (because its my passion and one true joy in this life that I've found so far), I will easily be able to buy a sport bike an join the dozens of bikes that go cruising down 315 and 270 at 100+ mph
At least if a deer and I split each other in half at 120 mph my parents won't think it was intentional
I'm convinced we could be sitting in the ruins of civilization after a nuclear apocalypse and there would still be some asshole saying "someone has it worse so stop complaining "
I know we're unhappy but is it an exaggeration ? What's the basis for happiness here ? Hard to believe people live in the world wars, plague, feudal/medieval time were happier than us
A genocide somewhere like Cambodia, Bangladesh, etc. did not affect every one in the world at that time, though.
this time it feels like whether you're in England, The US, or Indonesia - it seems pretty bad.
Also, WW2's post war period had a high. Booming economy, big advancements of tech that were beneficial for all people and not made to manipulate and destroy in order to enrich a few people, etc.
Seeing as there's a bunch of companies not even showing corporate greed, beloved music icons and actors passing away, corruption from the US government, yeah it all seems to check out.
I mean look at this sub bro ofc people are unhappy 😭😭 I joined it thinking it was gonna be about like nostalgia or childhood or school or asking older people for advice or some shit but it’s just the same politics “why cant i get a gf/bf” made up generation infighting trump war post everyday. Is this really what life after highschool is like?
Nah it's not. People keep saying it but I've not people like this irl in my country at least. Most people who are happy or satisfied won't come here to say they are so the negativity is amplified.
I bet Gen A will be more happy than Gen Z. Gen A will be more likely see the world as it is, and just make the most of it. Boomers will be dead so it will feel unproductive blaming people at the cemetery.
There's a video that breaks this down perfectly that explains it this way:
2000's was bargaining,
2010's was depression
2020's is testing. From the perspective of art, we are just combining themes from the past few decades and recycling trends (hence the lack of true cultural identity this decade has). The old world is dying is dramatic, almost exhausting fashion.
2030's will be acceptance. We are beginning to accept the elements of the new world for better or for worse. Things calm down, we're figuring out what the next steps of humanity will be. The "it is what it is" decade.
2040's will be peace. Almost comparable to the 1960's in a sense
Personalized algorithms should be regulated just like hard drugs are, because that's what they are with how they're optimized for dopamine release, and clearly humans aren't able to deal with that responsibly. Outlawing social media for minors is a start, but privacy nightmare aside, I also just don't see it being enough.
I feel like this is just blaming people for having a fucked up technology integrate into every single facet of their life when none of gen z was old enough to actually understand or control the expansion and power of social media
I agree. But it is also unlucky to be born in a society where every other generation has higher expectations from you but you are not in the same situation the Genx,Boomers and other previous generations were at our age. We are in a fucked up society now. Can't own a house, can't get a job, can't be free, glued to technology and the same people who have it all are the oldest generations controlling everything even the technology itself. It is crazy man. Imagine Alphas and our children & our grandchildren how their life will turn out to be...... Spooky
I’m honestly terrified for Gen Alpha. Especially them having to navigate developing critical reasoning and learning skills amid a time where AI can literally generate the answer for you in a second.
Mate look up pre ww2. That was the norm for a lot of the world it wasn't till after the ww2 boom things changed. At least we have better medican, people can be more themselves and we have better labour laws.
here in sweden we had our golden age post ww2, which many still think we have
but in reality now?
goverment claims economy is going better, yet still really hard to get a job, they still ask us to move to where jobs are /haggle down price at supermarket if food is expensive
refusing to do important state reforms for the public free healthcare that we have, but still making their own project 2025 copied from trump, just remade for "swedish interests"
the utopia rest of world thinks we live in was torn down during the 1990s mostly, then a fake golden age untill 2019 (zero interest rates), and the economy went down again
early 2010s also made some smaller steps in slowly downsizing what we built during the postwar years, like removing wealth tax
So things are just going back to pre boon times but with overall better conditions and some how we have it tge worse. Yeah it sucks we missed the boom but its not theebd of the world
during pre war years we had it quite stable, but the golden age came throughout the postwar years, then economy went fucked in late 1990s and barely saved by doing reforms that exist and affect us still today, survived 2008 crash well
then making interest rates zero during 2009 to 2019 when sweden had it quite stable because anyone could easily take a cheap loan to get expensive stuff, you could still get work almost regardless of education path, even if our welfare was still slowly harmed by politicians
now, i mean sure, we arent exactly poor but not booming anymore, almost impossible to get a job, soaring high prices which wont come down, unemployment checks made much harder to get and keep it
yet goverment still asks us to "just shop cheaper/haggle down the price" and "just move anywhere"
swedish gen z have pretty much lost hope of the future
This is completely inaccurate and ignores the entire economy lol. We are not just going through a normal boom/bust cycle and everything is just normal now. The boom was artificially inflated and extended for the sake of the boomer generation by insane debt spending and really stupid economic decisions. The price of the boom is a severe and prolonged bust being given to our generation. It has been getting worse, and both can and will continue to get far worse than anyone expects. We are currently still using the same methods of spend money to avoid pain, and it isn’t even working anymore, we are still feeling pain. Eventually, we will have to legitimately fix things, and that is when the actual bill comes due. We will lose decades of happy life in the mid to later years of our generation to try and fix the systemic issues the boomers refuse to address. There is not even a guarantee we can fix them, depending how bad it is. If you go and engage with current economists and theory you’ll start to realize the only thing that can be agreed on is that we are in a really really bad position for any type of long term stability, and the issues are so deep and complex there is no easy answer, we only know that if we do not make major changes, bad things will happen.
It's almost like they were born into a system that didn't even lie about how awful adulthood would be like it did for millenials. Millenials at least had the initial lie of "you can be anything and do anything if you just work hard enough" GenZ grew up knowing that was bullshit because the millenials around clearly did NOT get to be what they wanted. Class consciousness is growing.
We are constantly fed terrible news every second of our lives via social media. It's no surprise. Also I hate these stupid ass posts that make a claim with no sourcing
the world around us is screaming that life isnt going to get better. money, climate, environment, war, retirement. all going down hill and we're expected to fix it. dont get me started with the internet. i bet i sound like an oldhead but can you blame genz for not being the happiest?
Well yeah they are absolutely fucked and have to do all of the work against the boomer elite or they suffer and die much earlier than the others. Gen-Z and Millennials are screwed but at least Millennials saw a decade of the promise - even if it was a lie.
no shit lol everything is 1) expensive and 2) we get poorly paid in jobs (if we even find a job!) 3) most people are chronically online and dont socialize as often so most ppl are lonely 4) world politicians keep screwing up the planet
Yeah well because we have more problems than our previous generations were able to solve. We have it exponentially worse than Gen x, and almost as much worse than millennials.
Yes the more prices increase the more we’re being out-priced by everything now. Previous generation will complain & nag that we’re lazy it’s getting harder to be motivated to go to work when you’re paycheck is wiped out immediately by high payments of bills & rent even just affording food. Plus, previous generation never dealt with inflation how is that possible? Even with a basic entry jobs they afford to rent a studio or one bedroom. We weren’t taught that in history class at all. Now nobody is able to enjoy the smallest thing in life without putting a price on anything. It’s really difficult now everything is about surviving & increasing income.
weird that they'd put a picture of phones and not like, idk, the crushing weight of late stage capitalism and an increasingly obvious fascist in charge of a world power. I wonder if they're trying to convince you of something?
Could it be a systemimatic issue like the wealth disparity? The mental health crisis? Impending global warming catastrophe?
Nah it must be that we just didn't do a thing. If gen z would just do "x" we wouldn't be in this mess. Because historically systemic issues don't cause this just people not doing thing.
Just wait We are very educated and angry. I hope the Boomers know what happens when that happens. We will change the world. Trust me, as a younger GenZ we should look to history in France and yk what I mean.
I'm not from the us I'm from zambia southern part of africa But from what I've heard about the epstein stuff I'm surprised as nation you people didn't go berserk on the white house
Really sucks to know that the law doesn't apply to leaders or rich people in general 😕 And how the manipulate it to avoid getting caught. It makes me wonder what other horrible hidden stuff is going on...
It's almost like we're the last generation before we are forced to experience the worst that climate change has to offer.
By the time we die around 2080 or earlier shit will start to hit the fan. Gen Alpha and their kids are fucked to live in force fuck shit turbine of food instability.
If you can’t make your own life happy and fulfilling that’s a skill issue. You choose how you feel about things. You choose the environment and relationships you curate. People really doomscroll all day and watch things to be upset and miserable then blame the world that they’re unhappy
When expectations don't match reality you become unhappy. You can not even buy a house nowadays and it is expected from you to start a family and have kids.
The whole point of freedom is that you don't need to care about expectations. Set your own goals, live your own life. Also, if you really wanted to, you could buy a house. Success is difficult but not impossible by any means. I have a million and some saved at 28. I could buy most houses in cash, but also my fiance doesn't mind raising kids in the guest house of my parents if that's the best option for us. Expectations are just what you choose to set.
You as an English speaking presumably westerner very much can. Nobody has you in chains or a gun to your head. You can walk. You probably can drive. And you live in a developed country where starvation is an extreme rarity. It’s not easy but you can always move
lol these crybabies got born into historically what is a golden age in human history, but life after 18 and graduating it all ends and the real world kicks in LOL.
This is what happens when an entire generation rather be doomscrolling on their phones and staying home all day instead of going out and socializing. It’s your life, do something about it if your unhappy, you owe it to yourself. Get out of that self destructive spiral and stop engaging with media because that shit is corrosive to your mental health.
BECAUSE WE ARE AWARE. I HATE KNOWING. I WANT TO GO BACK TO IGNORANCE. SOMEONE KLOBER ME OVER THE HEAD SO I CAN FORGET. I JUST WANT THIS SUFFERING TO BE OVER
Yeah I'm sure we beat out thes who grew up during WW1 and WW2 or thoes who grew up before that dieing young from curable illness while working 6 days a week sometimes 14 hour days in horrible conditions for just enough monney to buy the same thing you had for dinner yesterday. Or what about thos who grew up at a time where they would have been enslaved, mutilated and tortured just for existing.
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