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You don't see it as disrespectful to pretend Gen Z has no agency, no ability to actually solve their own self-induced problems? Everything is someone else's fa
by yucky 4y ago
You don't see it as disrespectful to pretend Gen Z has no agency, no ability to actually solve their own self-induced problems?
Everything is someone else's fault? Is there anything they have brought about upon themselves that they can solve themselves, or are they helpless?
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoWhy do you insist on missing the point? I never said they have no agency to solve their problems, only that they did not create the lion’s share of the problems.
- yucky 4y agoThe problems are mostly self-inflicted. Nobody is forcing them to all move to the same 5 cities and then wonder why houses are so expensive there. Nobody is forcing them to spend their lives on social media despite every study showing the negative impact it has on their mental health. Nobody is forcing them to self-isolate into echo chambers and remove key support from friends/family etc. due to misaligned beliefs or whatever excuse. These are solved problems, so not fixing it is their own fault. But if you talk to them you'll see they don't want to solve problems, they want to be victims so they can do nothing and blame others for their own shortcomings. I feel bad for the young people in that generation who aren't wired this way because their own peers are driving them to embrace negativity and toxicity and wear it as a badge. We used to tell people like that to fuck off, now they're embraced - it's creepy.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoFair points, especially on the “same five cities”. That’s what sorting job markets by raw salary combined with wanting “culture” gets. Compare relative salary to CoL instead. That and restrictive zoning to keep property values up so the geriatrics don’t retire in poverty.