• Soupbreaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      683·
      5 天前

      Seriously. Fuck all this generational bullshit. Artificial divides cooked up by ad agencies. Such a waste of time and energy.

      • jimmy90@lemmy.world
        29·
        4 天前

        similarly fuck all this class bullshit. weaponizing emergent differences in society cooked up by extremist pseudo-scientists to replace one authoritarian system with another

        rather than finding progressive solutions for different roles in society

        • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
          5·
          4 天前

          What an utterly myopic argument that is devoid of critical analysis of our societal systems that dictate what those roles in society are to begin with.

          Bet you think communism is “inherently authoritarian” don’t you?

    • WanderWisley@lemmy.world
      38·
      5 天前

      Once we all figure out that we outnumber them millions to one they will have a very bad day, but I do feel like if that ever happened a good number of us will stand on the side of tyranny.

      • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world
        24·
        5 天前

        All they have to do is offer a certain small percentage of the population a job in “enforcement” with barely any benefits or pay.

        That new law enforcement will then protect the system that lets them look down on “the poors/immigrants/[insert boogie man]” and admire their ultra wealthy generous “saviors.”

        Fan in some hate, add some racism, a bit of bigotry. Baby, you got a stew going.

        How much do ICE thugs make again?

    • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
      52·
      4 天前

      Once can acknowledge the class war while also acknowledging the cancer that has been the Boomer generation. Both can be and are true.

      • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        11·
        5 天前

        They kinda lived in a semi peak, I remember the nineties and early 2000’s being pretty kickass, and they had their adult years through that.

        These are just assumptions tho, I’m a millenial.

        • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
          7·
          4 天前

          Gen X was the last generation to have a shot at the traditional path of school-college-career, but not old enough to fuck things up, and still suffer things like the dot com crash, major offshoring of tech jobs, 9/11, S&L crash, etc. but still able to get their foot in the door of a stagnant career. We didn’t suffer as bad as the millennials, but didn’t get the success of boomers either. Just generally ‘meh’ generation. Well, except for some kick ass music and movies. The hair tho…

        • _stranger_@lemmy.world
          5·
          5 天前

          There was a micro generation between Gen x and millennials too, they’re more like Elder Millennials. The last generation that didn’t have the Internet until they were older kids, like middle/highschool age. I’ve heard them called Xennials.

          • Bluesheep@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            5 天前

            I’ve heard it split into ‘old millennials’ being digital immigrants, and ‘young millennials’ being digital natives. Both are shaped by the wider macroeconomic effects and have similar outlooks, but older millennials are more likely to have been in work with some career progression under their belt before the crises hit.

            • njordomir@lemmy.world
              2·
              4 天前

              I spanned that divide. We got an Amiga in the home when most families had no computer and even then, I had to log all my computer time in a little book to make sure I didn’t spend too much time using it. I was frequently told to “go play outside”. I was taught not to give out my name or personal information online. A few years later, I remember downloading the full resolution Hubble Deep Field images, completely filling the family computer’s hard drive and probably saturating the dial up for quite a few minutes. Now I work for questionably evil companies (on my computer all day) then go home and do computer/tech related hobbies. I went from digging holes on the edge of the woods for fun to sitting in front of a computer, phone, tablet, or other tech most of the day.

              Is life better post-digital? In some ways yes; in some ways no. We’ve kind of hit dopamine saturation where everything is just a click away and everything has already been done/thought/built/conceived. I have communities for the most niche of interests and I can find info on almost anything that tickles my fancy. On the other hand, there’s very little reason to leave your home and anything that makes you (or your friends) special probably looks like shit compared to the accomplishment of some random 10 year old kid from a foreign country. When the world was smaller everyone could feel bigger and more significant, but post internet, it’s clear every day that we are one of billions of people. The ads still tell us we’re special… to sell us stuff.

              I find my solace in the outdoors and in regularly scheduled fully-offline social activities. I imagine being a kid got a whole lot harder after my little micro-generation.

          • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
            2·
            5 天前

            i feel like those are closer the gen x, and they are more X and boomerish than a millennial, they represent the OLD guard. think people like isaip actor, mac, kaitlyn, glenn they are older millineals.

    • Crapattf2@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 天前

      half of us are like boomers half of us care and the other half are baked and aren’t any good with numbers

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      4 天前

      We’re the ones quietly keeping the place running and not being hyperbolic and infected with social-media spawned WWE theater and brainrot.

      No, really, we are young enough to have a firm grasp on current events, but old enough to have lived in a time before ALL of this media/information deluge started changing people’s brain structure, and we have boomer’s work-ethic beat into us so we’re just getting our shit done and surviving as the world spirals into weird nonsense all around us.

  • Nightlight@lemmy.ca
    601·
    5 天前

    As a millennial I might live in my parents basement and eat avocado toast but I’m still ready to throw some molotovs

  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
    411·
    5 天前

    It has been said that for the outlying regions of the Roman Empire, the collapse only meant that when the unused bridge fell down, no one came to fix it. (Undoubtedly I have garbled it.)

    It has also been said “We are a long way from Beijing”, which means the central government is a long way away and don’t know what we are doing and impact our lives little.

    Some things will really suck. They will suck far more than I can imagine. We will still have local police and hospitals. Medical care will get worse. There may be less food in the non-agriculture states, but that will be fixed with trade or war.

    Lots of people will die. Likely you and I will die.

    Some states will link up to make their own countries. Canada may invite some states to join. Same with Mexico (New Mexico maybe…)

    Very much a “things I do not control”.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      5 天前

      I hope it will be a situation of medical care being allowed to get somewhat worse, instead of the same standards and institutions being maintained despite not enough funding to keep hospitals open at that standard and so medicine is generally prohibited for the poor.

    • Cyberwolf@feddit.org
      221·
      4 天前

      despite him pretending to be a lefty tankie, hes part of the bourgeoisie

      I don’t understand this argument. Engels (& by extension Marx), Lenin, Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong of the ones I know of, all were part of the bourgeoisie. They could have just chosen to rest on their unearned laurels but instead chose to leave all that behind to try to uplift the working class, to varying degrees of success. Surely that deserves some merit?

      All known philosophers past present and future came from or lived in bubbles of privilege. Working class people don’t have the time or mental energy to philosophize and present our thoughts to hordes of people, we are too busy working.

    • bier@feddit.nl
      81·
      5 天前

      This isn’t really new, when I was young a lot of kids wanted to be a pro footballer or singer.

      • teslasaur@lemmy.world
        35·
        4 天前

        Yes, but that actually requires working on a skill, which is a valuable lesson for kids.

        Being a douche live on a phone doesn’t.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      4 天前

      When you hate certain people online but want to wrap that hate in some kind of societal prescription as if we haven’t had wealthy celebrities talking about social issues and infecting kids with brainrot since media began. Gen Alpha is going to be like every previous generation with their own sets of challenges and abilities.

      If you want the influencers to go away, you have to stop baiting people to argue about them, just let them be.

  • ekZepp_Pf@piefed.socialEnglish
    34·
    5 天前

    I’ve read somewhere that sugar burns like a bitch and stay stuck everywhere.

    …Just a random fact.

      • WALLACE@feddit.uk
        22·
        4 天前

        Only a ceremonial one. All the royal family do is go around cutting ribbons, representing some charities, raping kids, and getting harassed by tabloid media.

        The US looks far more like the old fashioned monarchies these days with the billionaires ruling the country without the law applying to them.

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
          3·
          4 天前

          A “ceremonial” one that still takes taxes, influences policy, can and does appoint and remove officials, has veto powers, and is above the law unless the chief inbred agrees otherwise.

          But they’re not rude about it so the more gullible peasants pretend they’re just some vestigial organ that somehow also can’t be removed.

  • dan69@lemmy.world
    12·
    5 天前

    I’m okay for a new retirement system where I volunteer at a soup kitchen or food pantry.

    • korendian@lemmy.zipEnglish
      181·
      5 天前

      Highlights the idiocy of dividing people up by generation, they just totally skipped Gen X, because there was no neat little stereotype they could come up with.

  • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org
    9·
    5 天前

    America right now is going to create so many gangs and “terrorists”. And what’s fucked up is that America will profit off it… Any way you look at it.

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
    131·
    5 天前

    Billionaires paying a proper amount of taxes cannot appease me anymore. I want their heads separated from their bodies.