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I find everything about this weird and sad. I wonder how much of this is: 1. A product of social media itself—the usual stuff it gets vilified for: zero-sum at
by jim-jim-jim 5y ago
I find everything about this weird and sad. I wonder how much of this is:
1. A product of social media itself—the usual stuff it gets vilified for: zero-sum attention economy, promoting negative self-esteem, etc.
2. The average Zoomer rising to meet very real pressures that previously did not exist.
3. The web providing new visibility to a neurotic personality that has always existed.
It's probably a mix, but I wouldn't be surprised if this could mostly be attributed to the third point. I can think of people from my own school days who would be caught up in something like this. I didn't like any of them.
- DangitBobby 5y agoI think a case can be made for 2. Young Americans are probably more aware of the vanishing middle class than they would have been in previous generations, so they feel more pressure to work hard at a chance for a better life. They believe, accurately, that getting into a good college will vastly improve their chances of success.
- tester34 5y agoon the other hand they're hardly sorrounded with signs of ways of getting cash/succcess/yada yada "easily" streamers, youtubers, onlyfans, influencers, fake/successful (survivor bias?) people on social media those (mainstream) probably do not promote solid work ethic, or are healthly
- kilroy123 5y agoI think it's the result of rising inequality (especially in America). The rich get richer and the rest just keep sinking lower and lower, with stagnant wages and ever growing inflation. You got to kill yourself to stay afloat or risk drowning.