every generation has seemed to rationalize selling out their potential and playing dumb in exchange for hypothetical material security, not just millenials, the poor kids
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
When you say something like that
Do you ever I mean ask
Assuming it even makes any sense as a statement never mind that it's accurate let's just assume in your head this is a coherent sentence and also a fact
Assuming that and don't forget you just made an ass out of u and ming then do you ever ask yourself why each generation does this thing you think they do
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 December 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
U ok hun
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 18 December 2017 01:21 (six years ago) link
I feel like that highline article dilutes its own argument by ultimately turning out to be about every bunch of Americans who ever graduated college during a major recession.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 18 December 2017 01:34 (six years ago) link
eh i'll take it, all that damn "milleniums are the worst" clickbait trash needs to be countered a little bit
― Nhex, Monday, 18 December 2017 03:37 (six years ago) link
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 18 December 2017 01:21 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Read it aloud babes it might make more sense if it doesn't that's cool too x
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 18 December 2017 04:04 (six years ago) link
yeah average rent is like 2 K in vancouver now, it's fucking bunk. also same as jim i'm in a decent rent sitch but it's easy to put half the cheque towards rent
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Monday, 18 December 2017 04:50 (six years ago) link
I live in a pretty small basement apt in Toronto and I spend about 40% of my take-home on rent.
― Simon H., Monday, 18 December 2017 04:59 (six years ago) link
ah, here, this is the thread
― j., Tuesday, 12 March 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admissions-cheating-scandal.html
― j., Tuesday, 12 March 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
Ray Liotta [V/O]: https://t.co/LR71RqUMIx— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) March 12, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-millennialgen-z-strategy
I’ve written extensively about student loans, and the broken state of the student loan forgiveness program, here. That piece was the first thing I wrote after the original millennial burnout article, because it was the most tangible expression of the gap between what millennials were told their future would look like, if only they worked hard enough, and the lived, post-Recession reality. To understand millennial burnout, you can’t just understand the amount of student loans we’re carrying; you have to understand what they feel like. And if and when you understand that, it’s incredibly straightforward to see why so many support Sanders and Warren.Back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, middle-class boomers and young Gen-Xers were faced with the reality that their parents’ broadly stable middle-class existence would not necessarily pass down to them. The so-called Golden Age of American Capitalism had lasted just long enough that those who grew up under it could believe that it might last forever. They responded to the decline in stable middle class jobs in a number of ways: many of them, too, went to college, but because public institution funding had yet to be gutted by tax cuts, it cost much, much, much less. (Cue: your boomer uncle who loves to tell you he worked his way through college and graduated without loans).But as Barbara Ehrenreich persuasively argues in Fear of Falling, they responded by turning decisively inward: how can I do whatever is possible to help me and mine?
Back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, middle-class boomers and young Gen-Xers were faced with the reality that their parents’ broadly stable middle-class existence would not necessarily pass down to them. The so-called Golden Age of American Capitalism had lasted just long enough that those who grew up under it could believe that it might last forever. They responded to the decline in stable middle class jobs in a number of ways: many of them, too, went to college, but because public institution funding had yet to be gutted by tax cuts, it cost much, much, much less. (Cue: your boomer uncle who loves to tell you he worked his way through college and graduated without loans).
But as Barbara Ehrenreich persuasively argues in Fear of Falling, they responded by turning decisively inward: how can I do whatever is possible to help me and mine?
― j., Monday, 17 February 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
in hindsight, this was all very predictable. if the capitalist class wanted to keep the american population on board with their system, they should have allowed them to be part of it, not puffed them up with expectations and then let out the air.
― treeship., Tuesday, 18 February 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
it doesn't seem like they ever act in their long term class interests, honestly. their whole model relies on the american consumer, yet they are always trying to chip away at people's power to buy and invest.
― treeship., Tuesday, 18 February 2020 01:54 (four years ago) link
Introspective Twitter thread untangling conflicted feelings about financial dependence on his parents:
a few days ago i took a medium dose of acid and wrote for several hours straight and admitted some things to myself, mostly about moneylet's start here: last august my mom gave me $100,000 for my birthday. i resented her for this and also suppressed the resentment— Magnificent Adult Baby (@QiaochuYuan) July 15, 2021
― o. nate, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
My heart breaks for him for receiving a gift of $32k more than the median household income of an American family.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 16 July 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
“A few days ago I took a medium dose of acid and wrote for several hours…” pic.twitter.com/jKRUx9bC1c— Bimböcalan (@baddielaire) July 16, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 16 July 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
let's start here: ask your mom for another $100K, then donate it all directly to people via mutual aid. then christ will come back and you will reign for 100,000 money years
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 July 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
http://files.pensadorcristao.webnode.com.br/system_preview_detail_200000056-6a2606a9fc/mike-murdock.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link