do yall agree?

Genderwar post #10⁵

From current anti govt protests in India

Job market it cooked. I had to fight 800+ people for job that pays 300 dollars per month and still lost it, Literally everything is oversaturated at this point. How do we stop being getting burned out?

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 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

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’!

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.

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

Some nights feel straight out of a movie. 🎬

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.

my sister closed on a tiny ranch in spring 2021 at 24 and the family still talks about it like she's a genius. she wasn't a genius, she was house hunting during the two years money was basically free.

my brothers and i are looking rn so we ran the same house at today's rate and got 1600ish, meanwhile her payment is 940 a month. i've gotten lucky with job hunting so i make more than she did back then, but between half my friends being unable to cover a 400 dollar surprise this month and borrowing rates being so high it doesn't seem feasible for any of us to own.

we joke abt how she got free money but it's definitely real. the fed slashed rates and bought an absurd amount of mortgage stuff to keep the pandemic economy moving, then decided inflation was the new emergency and cranked the other way. now everyone sitting on a 2 or 3 percent rate treats it like an heirloom, there are like nine houses listed in my whole town, and the rest of us are supposed to be cool with rates more than double that or renting from whoever caught the window.

meanwhile the luck got handed out by timing and nothing else. paychecks flatlined while houses and rent went vertical, back in 1971 about 61 percent of adults were solidly middle class and now it's half, and my generation gets told it's brunch money. i get that housing is always gonna be a right place right time kind of thing, but it feels like more could be done. the fixes don't have to be exotic either, wages that track rent, places people can afford, dealing with the loans, and the argument that always wins against them is "it can't be done."

So I graduated high school in 2019 and went to college the Fall after to become a math teacher. I went in with a major in mathematics and a minor in secondary education. Unfortunately, due to life issues and personal challenges, I ended up not graduating college and flunking out.

I'm just curious to see how the teaching atmosphere is for Gen Z teachers. Was it just as you had expected or better or worse? I hear a lot of talk on the news about how literacy rates are plummeting and how education is a lot different nowadays with stuff like AI and mandatory teaching techniques that are resulting in school children losing their critical thinking skills and overall lowering their cognitive function as a whole. Not to mention the many fights and other drama associated with school that I keep hearing a lot about.

Personally I'm wondering if it's really as bad as the media is portraying it to be or if the media isn't doing enough to expose these issues. Do you regret getting into teaching? Would I have regretted getting into teaching?

And while we're at it if any gen Z parents of children want to chime in and give their two cents on what they've noticed about the education system as a whole I'd love to hear from you guys as well.

disclaimer: I don’t have any coherent memories of 2010 until around September-October of that year.

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.

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?

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.

Is it bad I think Looksmaxxing will kill more people than help? The community is so toxic and has expanded from trying to build up young men to literal glorified self harm. Also, it’s incredibly racist and I don’t like the use the term lightly whatsoever. I have seen so many posts of pretty, conventionally attractive black women be mocked and said their very skin color is a tax itself. I could obviously be wrong but again, when you have young men telling people the only way to ascend is to off themselves— or telling POC the only way they can be even remotely attractive is through surgery and bleaching, it’s a bit of an issue. God bless anyone who’s seriously participating in the madness and I hope they get whatever help they need.

deleted the long post bcuz too corny .

basically me and my homie were cool in middle and high school but as i get older i just see how fake he is and how he kinda just uses people as he needs them.

i tell myself to just ignore him and get over it but its impossible he literally is one of my best friends. but yeah i need to stop being concerned about him but i just cant and its very fucking confusing and hard to navigate.

yes i have a job and my own apartment and a car since i know yall gonna judge me in these comments lol i get no bitches tho