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My random thoughts 3 months before I turn 18 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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Is a age that is both full of, and devoid of opportunities. I feel like being a adult is just lying about how much you have your shit together to people who also lie about having their shit together. After we got out of college, we are just going to sit in front of a computer like the generations before us for the rest of our life, with the only difference of be paided less then them. I don't want to be like this. I want my life to be more then this. I want to go out explore and change the world. When we gen z first comes to high school the world seems full of opportunities, we imagine us achieving great things, but not one of us could have imagined the entire generation having a mid-life crisis at the age of 18.

To all the Gen Z, and in the future, Gen Alpha. Welcome to the 2020s, welcome to late stage captalism.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Every young person goes through this. They want to change the shitty world and have energy for it when they are young, but no power, money or influence whatsoever.

Later in life, you have power, money and influence but no energy.

Lols.

Also every generation think they are special and better than previous generations. But you need to have been around for a few generations to see that.

Actually gen z is the first generation I've seen that blames boomers for everything, and have a us vs them mentality, probably created by social media.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I would say millennials blame boomers for the economy and the reasons why we struggled so much to get a house (if they even have one by now)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So if gen z was in the place of boomers, they would have done differently?

I don't think so. Each person has similar needs. Safety and power comes from money, and money comes from careers or inheritance.

It doesn't matter which year you are born. You all join the circus going on here on earth. And you can only influence your little bit of a single corporation.

If you are a politician, you influence laws, but those laws are often easily bypassed and exploited for profit.

So I wouldn't blame generations of people for anything they did. Just like I don't blame Gen Z for being how they are. They are a product of their environment, same as everyone before them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay... I don't now why that's massively relevant to what I was saying. I wasn't arguing anything in particular other than saying that I've not seen that stereotype being zoomer v boomer and mostly seen it millennial v boomer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't mean to argue about anything. Just a comment with my thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Fair enough

[–] felixwhynot 3 points 2 months ago

I think the move is to hire some smart younger people and listen to their ideas

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I also think they have way to high of expectations. They world isn't going to baby you as it turns out. The younger generations want to be paid these big salaries to sit and do nothing. They don't want to work hard and if we are being honest a lot of them had everything handed to them.