At the beginning of the race we see the incessant vain jockeying of a group trying to socially manipulate constantly and fit in, and on the other end (the actual end of the race), you see a group constantly trying to justify and protect what scraps the race allowed them to keep.
And in the middle you run as fast as you can, hoping you escaped the beginning of the race, hoping you make it to the end with some scraps you can call treasure. You run away from the beginning of race, disgusted at what you once were, and disgusted at what you need to become to survive until the end.
It’s in that moment of realization you wish the universe imploded. All that running kills the soul.
I’d say the people in the beginning and end have a tangible resentment, and not necessarily an existential crisis. In other words, GenZ would be resentful of having to start fresh against the barbarian Millenial/Boomer horde, and Boomers would be resentful of any attempt at reformation where their scraps from the race would be worth less.
It’s only Millenials who would neither resent GenZ or Boomers because they were already GenZ once upon a time, and know they have to become Boomers to survive.
That would be my best argument for why Millennials are in some deep psychological shit.
Millennials already tried, found it didn't work, found it was for nothing, found it will never work because the systems of humanity don't allow for it.
GenZ believes in people. When they give up, they won’t give up on the system, they will give up on people. I’d keep a watchful eye on that development.
speak for yourself. I'm changing the world, one kind gesture at a time ^_^
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I am an "official" millennial, born 1989. One thing I have noticed (in an anectodical, personal and subjective way) is that my age bracket, especially those I would consider higher on an intelligence/success curve, appear to be so much more closet-nihilist than everyone else around.
https://themreport.com/news/data/02-02-2021/pressing-housing...
I argue it can be automated. I have learned more from ML MOOCs than from my Romanian college.
The intuition is that grants and loans make education more affordable, but in the medium to long term they just inflate the cost of tuition for everyone.
Similarly for healthcare and housing.
Feel like we either need to socialize these sectors of the economy, or go full free market. But a system half way in between doesn't work.
(My personal preference would be to largely socialize healthcare and education, while pushing for more free market reforms for housing, to encourage new development and increase the housing supply.)
Your analysis does not explain away decades of mediocre wage growth in the face of inflation in healthcare, education and housing costs.
I mean, you could, either in the form of apartments (which are essentially smaller houses) or houses in less desirable areas (shittier houses).
> Your analysis does not explain away decades of mediocre wage growth in the face of inflation in healthcare, education and housing costs.
Wages are typically computed per household. In the late 1960, a tsunami of divorces and single-parent households started occuring (something that wasn't widely culturally accepted before then), which makes comparisons of household wages before and after an apples to oranges comparison. It's basically bad stats.
Re: rising costs of (higher) education and healthcare. It's partially similar to the housing situation. The standard of service people get (and expect to get) today is dramatically higher than in 1960s. In 1960s, we didn't even have MRIs... Nowadays medicine is packed with expensive technology and drugs - that has to inflate the price. Similarly, today's university environment is a combination of an university of the past with a high-class resort (the student facilities are basically on the level of good hotels in many cases) - that's gotta inflate the price too. Add extractionary practices of the medicine insurance companies cartel and university administrators on top of that, and that pretty much explains current prices.
To top it off, mortgage interest rates doubled and prices have not dropped.
As mentioned, this seems to be more prevalent in people who are, objectively, well-off in the financial department, so it's not like they "hate" the system per se and could afford degrees of financial independence that many others will never be allowed to.
There are financial constraints to being off the grid of the game.
Even if I wanted to run off into the woods and live in a cabin, I don’t know if I could live off the current amount I have.
So back to the grid, hence the resentment.
I don't know that there is much historical precedent for a "controlled burn". When things go tits up, there's generally a big increase in suffering that comes along with it, and still no guarantee things will get fundamentally better after that.
But otoh the only "real" traction we are getting for issues like, in this case, climate change seem to be relatively recent and caused by more and more catastrophic, tangible effects (80% of Pakistan under water, heatwaves, tropical storms becoming a regular occurrence in the coastal US, you name it)