I don't know what's holding people back from starting the talk about public health effects of the new online 'cigarettes'
Aside from being entitled and incompetent, they've brought domestic violence into the workplace to obfuscate this fact. They know it, and they live in fear of having what they do to others done to them. You see it in prison too-- the tension is palpable.
Post-COVID, the number of bad-faith HR reports I've had to investigate has skyrocketed. People are trying to get exes fired for sexual harassment, bosses fired for criticizing them, colleagues fired for being abrasive...it's driving me up the fucking wall. I get people pulling Sam Altmans too, which is fun. I used to work with professionals. Now I do the dirty work of adult tweens.
I had to listen to similar comments about Millennials.
It's just the current youngest group, who are the least experienced so will be the most anxious. You just grow out of it, and forget how shitty it was when you first entered the workforce.
Or even Michael Easter's "Comfort Crisis"?
Each successive generation has had it easier and easier but...
1) Easy isn't how we evolved
2) The lack of adversity means some emotional muscles are underdeveloped
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod...
However it is a well known phenomen that the youngest generation gets picked on by those already in the workforce. Or are you saying that Gen X is still generally worthless compared to the older generations?
The idea that Chris Rock was being a prick and mocking a group of people being unacceptable and rejected isn't any more surprising than comedians making racist or disabled jokes being rejected 30 years ago.
There are plenty of actually funny people who don't need to do that.
Curious why social media is to blame when adults exploiting and denigrating youth is timeless.
When society as a whole turns a blind eye to their future struggles; drill baby drill! What you want to afford a home and a fam? Lol no; hustle culture and technology to fetishize!
Did social media manipulate the economy to deflate GenZ and empower the dying?
Was social media responsible for 2008 crash, money printing?
Government full of entitled people who don’t like what the kids had to say about them, so they retaliated.
Is it tech or is it American Civic Life that’s garbage?
Both of these are extremely complex problems to solve and would require consistent efforts over generations. However the people in power are happily trading the future of humanity for more money and power, and finding support from a large section of the population in doing so.
I can't speak for everyone but this is why I have a hard time working on my next jira ticket after reading the news.
And yeah, seeing the temperature anomaly charts this past summer makes you wonder if anything is even going to matter in a decade or two. I’m ever glad I never wanted children; I can’t imagine the anxiety of trying to raise them in the modern world.
Leaving the social media bubble for the world news bubble is hardly an improvement