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Do you have any… evidence for this crisis? Or can we just add your quote to the twitter thread?

• noduerme 4y ago
  it's anecdotal but mostly relates to the conversations I have with people - daily - who view their long term prospects as nil, no matter how hard they work or don't. It's recognizable to me as an extension of the Gen X dread of having lower economic expectations than your parents, but it lacks the DIY ethos or even the willingness to bite the bullet and try. I could recount a book's worth of these conversations I've had weekly since before the pandemic among the privileged white college grads in my neighborhood. I was also a wanderer and a slacker and a musician and an artist and I have plenty of sympathy for the sentiment. But at the end of the day I knew I had to work, and they don't have that feeling.
  • wishfish 4y ago
    I hope you realize the fallacy of proclaiming a "crisis" based purely on anecdotal evidence.
    • nl 4y ago
      It's worse than that. Their sample is based on people who have already decided to drop out of society: > just talk to anyone under 25 here who's living in a van or shooting heroin on the street and they'll explain to you in collegiate level prose why there's no point getting a job. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162126