Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse

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.

I don't think it's just not getting a fair slice-- they don't like the pie.

When I was 20, there was hope that technology was serving us better, we could (and would) fix pollution and global warming, people's health around the world was improving, open space and protections for wildlife were increasing. Progress seems much less of a straight line now, and young people I know are skeptical of human effort in general. The easy solution seems to be just do less and have less, which doesn't motivate you to work for rich people. I don't agree with all of the gloom, but you can't expect them to just snap out of it.

well yeah we increasingly cant see the fruits of our labour.

just feels like we are grinding ourselves for nothing

Yeah more and more there's a sense of "what's the point" among young people, and having few supports and being burnt out from multiple jobs just makes it worse. Most of their energy gets spent on trying to make it to the next week or month, and from whatever's left they can't really even think about saving up for anything.

You're working for older people's pensions that you'll never see. You're working to fill the pockets of the rich owner class. If I didn't have a very specific goal and a decent amount of support from my family, I don't know if I would have gotten through a rough patch in my life after finishing university.

I think that's gonna be a global issue very soon. I'm a millennial in the EU and feel already like that. I more often see it in younger generations.

I get financially by. That's it. No huge savings. I don't own a car because it would just make it more expensive to be alive. Thinking about buying a house or apartment? Hell no.

Right it's our fault the entire world, the government,the economy is on the verge of collapsing and staying in work and school will solve all of our problems we can't afford to have a life, staying in school to get into work is pointless having a job is pointless you can't afford to live anyways. So who's fault is it let's think real hard about that.

A growing group of America's young people are not in school, not working, or not looking for work. They're called "disconnected youth" or "opportunity youth,"

There's already a term for this: NEET. Not in Education, Employment, or Training