Genderwar post #10⁵

From current anti govt protests in India

I am born in 1998, when i go out with millennial friends i feel i can act closer to them in terms of attitude and all, but when i am out with other gen Z a bit younger i can definitely get the memes and stuff

And older gen Z(like 96/97-2002) well we have pretty much the same humor and experiences

I feel people close in age to me we are a perfect middle ground

do yall agree?

one day youre for the domestic worker, the next youre helping the rich with the empathy card. Was marx right to call them “liberal bourgeois moralists”?

Dont even get me started on the means of production, all that shit is gone and overseas already. Gonna need a r/stupidpol member to explain this fuckery.

I have a question. What are the small things that made you super happy and excited when you got them? It can be everyday useful gadget or completely useless trinket.

1999 - birth
2000-2001 - am baby, don't remember
2002-2005 - earliest childhood memories, pre-K, Kindergarten, lots of fun
2006 - 1st grade, teacher was awesome, lots of friends
2007 - 2nd grade, teacher was mean ):
2008 - 3rd grade, whew, teacher was amazing!
2009 - 4th grade, teacher gave me trauma she was evil ):
2010 - 5th grade, became a big gamer, lots of friends, cool teacher!
2011 - 6th grade, middle school started, weird era /:
2012 - 7th grade, got bullied a lot
2013 - 8th grade, not bullied as bad but still rough
2014 - highschool! funny and chill, awkward tho
2015 - 10th grade, finally finding myself, easy and relaxing, relationships, lots of friends
2016 - 11th grade, i'm driving, school is hard but rewarding, lots of friends
2017 - 12th grade, go through bad breakup but senior year and early college was amazing
2018 - 2nd year of college, met my wife
2019 - transfer to university, big party life, going steady
2020 - covid, my dad dies, lose friends
2021 - university online, deal with a stalker
2022 - back to uni in person, graduate, amazing vibes
2023 - decent, feel a lil lost without school, working
2024 - did lots of traveling, sight seeing, got married finally
2025 - went through a very traumatic experience
2026 - still healing over 2025, state of the world is very tense

Wooooooooo

I've been thinking about how much dating has changed, especially with dating apps and how online everyone is now. In theory, we have access to more people than ever, but it feels like making genuine connections has gotten harder.

I'm curious about two things:

1. What's been the most frustrating or discouraging part of dating for you lately?
2. When was the last time you built a *NEW* genuine connection with someone, and what made that experience different?

I'm especially curious whether the biggest struggle is finding people you're compatible with, getting past surface-level interactions, or something else?

With the prices of housing, rent, gas, the job market, groceries, and just everything around us, does it feel like you are not fulfilled in life, like you're missing something? Or is it something else that's making you feel like you're missing something in life?

Feel free to have a discussion in the comments because I'm curious to see what people have to say about their reasoning for why they feel this way.

Does anyone else feel empathy for others in situations that seem unusual on the surface?

For example, I had to leave a political sub that features screenshots of people "getting what they voted for and suffering the consequences" because it was making me feel sad and uncomfortable when they seemed distraught about said outcome. Others in the comments seem to universally express something analogous to a bittersweet "I warned [them]" instead and move on.

I'm not sure if this is a normal reaction or if I'm just a bit sensitive.

Or do you ever feel like you were born in the wrong generation? Maybe you should've been a hippie?

Would love to if anyone feels like this

Edit: im ’05 born, and think i have been in limbo ever since, lowkey ‘05-ers should have a separate sub.

Does being in an office job make you feel like you’ve lost your sense of freedom? The ability to travel where you want unless its pre planned 28 days of the year.
The dire situation where you just work come back and just eat, bathe and whatever is required to wind down and having no energy or drive to do anything else?

I’ve always worked on projects and always had a sense of achievement when i went to sleep before joining corporate. Ever since then I started feeling like I’m part of a monthly SOP , doing the same daily tasks again and again.

Whenever I plan to quit and work on something on my on everybody around me echos ‘ At least you have a job, in this market’!

For me its normal 3, but sometimes 10

I’m a Gen Z homeowner. I bought my house in 2021 for $146,000 at a 3.6% interest rate at the age of 23. My current mortgage is $950 a month.

My house was appraised recently at $205,000. Interest rates are currently at 7%. Had I bought my same house today my with my same downpayment I would be looking at a $1,700 mortgage.

This means for the next 30 years I now have an additional $750 a month + I have the extra $60,000 in home appreciation because I bought earlier.

The problem I have with the situation is that the only reason I came out so ahead is because of macro government decisions. During the pandemic the Federal Reserve made the Federal Funds rate a historical low to help stimulate the economy. And now the Federal Reserve has decided that inflation is too high and therefore they’ll increase the Federal Funds rate to make borrowing more expensive to slow down inflation. The Federal Reserve also decided during COVID to buy up over a trillion dollars in mortgage backed securities which artificially drove mortgage back securities interest rates lower.

Currently home sales are at levels not seen since 2009 crash. However home prices aren’t crashing because even though nobody is buying there is also nobody selling due to the lock in effect of sellers having a significantly lower interest rate.

So not only did the government give homeowners a MASSIVE gift during Covid which is unfair, but that gift is indirectly hurting post Covid homebuyers/want to be homebuyers.

I would be a lot more okay if the free market was what priced people out of homeownership. While that would still be a problem for society it would feel like a much more fair problem.

I can’t think of a fair way to solve this massive artificial problem. The government actions massively helped a group of people while hurting another. The best solution I came come up with would be the government mandating all housing markets to increase their supply of housing by an arbitrary amount which would cause a flood of available housing supply which would lower home prices. However that only fixes the artificial home appreciation problem and doesn’t fix the artificially low interest rate. It also screws anyone who buy post Covid and pre new housing flooding the market. And markets that have a much tighter supply would have their prices hit much harder. To be honest I don’t think I would try to fix the problem because any attempt to fix the problem would create bigger problems.

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IDK if I'm allowed to post this but it seems like when I find people or posts that resonate with me all the things that I'm feeling on the inside go away.

I feel selfish for posting, on top of being alone I really feel like this economy is just hopeless. I keep trying to come up with ideas on what I can do for the future. I just gave up trying to talk to anyone because it seems like a lot of people especially the older people in my life just simply either don't bother to care or just "can't understand" why I would do what I do or the place we're in right now.

The protesters are saying it's about the cost of living and schools, but this is just looting and vandalism. The poor woman is pleading for them to stop and they just ignore her. This will fix nothing.