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Technology is only the reminder of the stress. Kids are dealing with: 1.) A constant reminder that rapid climate change on Earth is going to drastically change
by almost_usual 8y ago
Technology is only the reminder of the stress. Kids are dealing with:
1.) A constant reminder that rapid climate change on Earth is going to drastically change the quality of their life in the near future.
2.) Less jobs, automation will inevitably consume more jobs for the next generation resulting in more service level work or careers that feel empty without much opportunity. The pressure to do compete for a desirable job will continue at an increasing rate.
3.) Extreme competition to live where you grew up or where desirable jobs are. The youth suicide rate in the Bay Area Peninsula (specifically Palo Alto) is the highest in the country. Kids need to compete at a world class level to get into a world class university to gain entry to a career where they _might_ have the ability to afford a home in their neighborhood. Anything less will be seen as failure to their friends or family. Similarly children who didn't grow up in the area face a life of trying to break in to a major metropolitan area where the highly skilled desirable jobs are.
- refurb 8y agoYouth suicide rates in the peninsula don't seem all that much higher than outside-the-bay-area counties and are lower than some other states.[1] [1]https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/213/youthsuicide-rate https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/213/youthsuicide-rate
- cordonbleu 8y agoi think we will see a spike when the current cohort of kids reach early twenties, and real life things screw up, serving to confirm all the imagined problems manufacured by what really amounts to a coincidental "gaslighting" by an badly implemented system.
- almost_usual 8y agoYour link is giving me a 404. I was referencing this https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-silicon-valley-suicides/413140/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sil... in my comment.
- makerofspoons 8y agoI agree, especially with point one. Who would not be anxious when it looks increasingly like there is no future worth living in?
- cordonbleu 8y agoA lot of kids are afraid of this scenario. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/
- makerofspoons 8y agoWho wouldn't be? We have lost 60% of animals since the 1970s, insects have dropped 75%, the oceans are acidifying, and our soil is being depleted. What do people think we are going to eat?
- CalRobert 8y agoI wish more of these people knew you can escape the bay. Escape California. Move somewhere cheap. Make your own life. You won't have a fancy car but if you're clever enough you'll be OK. Hell, start a homestead. I'm increasingly suspicious that we've managed to make modern life _worse_ than sustenance farming for a not-tiny percentage of the population.
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- jpindar 8y agoWhat? Vermont is 37th in population density. Alaska is by far the lowest (or Wyoming if you're only counting the lower 48). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population_density https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...
- cordonbleu 8y agogood you know your stuff :) adde unnum !
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- NeoBasilisk 8y agoUnfortunately, many of the people that grew up in Calfornia/NY/etc have the view that there are a maximum of maybe 5 states worth living in.
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- sjg007 8y ago>Anything less will be seen as failure to their friends or family. Why?
- almost_usual 8y agoDon't ask me, I'm not their parents. It seems to be a norm in SV. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-silicon-valley-suicides/413140/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sil...
- NeoBasilisk 8y agoRealizing that you probably can't support the same lifestyle that you grew up with can feel like failure.