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Meet the Gen Zers struggling to stay in work or school — and the parents who are at a loss for how to help
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Are you kidding? The parents can't figure out why? Really? Neither can mine by the way.
They don't understand that the social contract is broken. Working for a living wage is a concept that's all but disappeared. A job can't pay the rent and food. And employers aren't giving any significant pay raises or promotions in order to cut costs. They've been through TWO major economic events - 2008 and COVID - and the massive layoffs that go with them.
I think I heard Jimmy Carr say something about this along the lines of the reason that millennials and the younger generations play so much video games is that it's the only way to experience the fantasy of actually doing something and progressing in any significant way that we don't experience any more in real life. And forget about owning a home and building a family with kids and all that. It's become incredibly difficult and something reserved for the wealthy elite.
Boomer parents who were able to get a well paying job with a high school degree and got good raises their whole life will never understand this.
Not sure I agree, no matter what way you cut it, Boomers/Gen X were sold a turd , sure it was disguised as a snickers and they chewed away with gusto, embracing it with both hands but what they did can't be replicated even though most of them refuse to even acknowledge that, Limits to Growth within a finite biosphere etc pollution, population, resource depletion, climate chnage etc all catching up with us.
Lamenting it's loss is bizzare, it was a turd to begin with. Entitled white folks fucking the biosphere and minorities over and living off that explotation is surley fucking toxic.
Not recognizing it for what it was and poviting to a sustainable lifestyle (from about say the '70s or 80s) is however even bizarrer and inevitably has lead us to where we are.
That "young people" are tempted with the same stupid snickers turd and lamet not being able to chow down is just indoctrination writ large I guess.
You don't need to play video games to accomplish something and feel progression. Any hobby will do that. Some are essentially for free, other than the time spend. Hence I do not see that one specific connection. Otherwise should be a good starting point to figure the reasons out.
The person being quoted isn't saying that everyone who needs to escape reality does so through video games but that most people who play video games are doing so to escape reality. Your example of other hobbies providing the same effect doesn't counter this claim
That sounds like a baseless claim based on their own view. Hence I brought some counter examples.
The original claim was that the Popoto country mainly produces papaya. You said that the Combucha country also produces papaya. Your statement doesn't refute the first one, at all.
The person clearly states "the only way". That is clearly bullshit. Like saying "only Popoto produces pots papaya", to use ur example.
damn you are right, I missed that "only". nvm
All good, thank you.
Of course! But, I'm saying it e generation in general has been doing that to fill a void.
There never was a social contract lol what are you talking about?
You people act like the capitalists weren't always trying to get the most out of us while giving us as little as possible...but none of you will change your buying habits or sacrifice anything to save the system.
Kids rail against how hopeless it is while spending $20 on chipotle and paying these companies they're complaining about.