The system works for the system
The System does not work.
Submitted 2 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 1 month ago
curiousaur@reddthat.com 1 month ago
What do you mean supposed to do? Doom scroll through school? Cheat through college? This is the dumbest, most useless generation of recent grads I’ve ever seen. It’s not just me, its a studied, measurable drop in math skills, reading skills and attention. They’re fucking worthless.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“The most educated and most indebted generation” is referring to Millenials.
Also it’s*
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
gen z is also coming up on it too, since they graduated around the time when the layoffs are currently happening.
Joeffect@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe instead of blaming them… you look at the years and years of dismantling funding for schools and the push for technology in the classroom…
curiousaur@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Oh yeah, that’s fucked. Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely not saying it’s their fault that they’re worthless, just that they are worthless.
The mix of experimenting with tech in the classroom, social media, then add in missing two developmental years from covid, and we have ourselves a lost generation.
We already learned our lessons. California has banned phones in schools starting this school year. Many countries are banning kids under 18 or 16 from social media all together.
We learned a ton from how badly gen z turned out. But they did turn out very badly.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 month ago
They’re fucking worthless.
Projection.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The system only works for the few, as capitalism has always done so. As feudalism before that. The secret ingredient to both systems is systemic racism, oppression, and exploitation.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
52% of young adults live with their parents
Curious to know what defines “young adult”, given how many people are still in college into their early-20s.
Also curious to know why multigenerational households are something we’re supposed to be afraid of. This is normal practically everywhere else in the world.
Even if rents weren’t skyrocketing, it’s very hard to argue with “my old bedroom is rent free” when I’m at an entry level position.
I would be much more worried about the percent of young people who don’t have a parent’s home to move back into - because their parents are also homeless, or in care homes, or are otherwise unable/unwilling/openly hostile.
Feels a bit like I’m looking at a picture of the bullet hole airplane
asmoranomar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My experiences don’t reflect everyone’s, but I was taking care of my mom and my sisters, and could not find upward momentum until moving out. I did have a sense of responsibility though, and paid ‘rent’ when I was not asked to. It prevented me from affording to go to college and focusing on my own needs. I was fortunate I could leave that behind, even if it took time.
Today, kids (including my sister’s kids) can’t do that now. Even worse, because of layoffs and poor decisions by their parents, all of them have to pool their money just so they have a house. The kids want to leave, but because all their money goes to ‘rent’, the only other option is the street. It’s really hard, and I think assuming that “my old bedroom”, well it does a lot of heavy lifting.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
its quite common than you think. i think it matters of your relationship with your parents, a dysfunctional likely wont result in your situation, or some of them wont find a job, or refuse to do chores or pay the bills,(mostly due to parents poor decisions in thier children upbringing.)
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It prevented me from affording to go to college and focusing on my own needs.
I mean, was the ability to live independently the problem? Or was your mom and sisters needing your attention and support what held you back?
Because… obviously, you could have just left them in the lurch and gone your own way. I made similar choices when I came out of college - staying close to home so I could easily visit and help, as my own sister prepared for school and my mom entered retirement.
Today, kids (including my sister’s kids) can’t do that now. Even worse, because of layoffs and poor decisions by their parents, all of them have to pool their money just so they have a house.
I mean, that’s bad in so far as they’re caught in a tight economic spot. But being able to afford a house, even with the help of multiple generations, is significantly better than being homeless or stuck in a slum, because you’d been foreclosed on. Living together and minimizing expenses seems like a good thing for everyone involved. Atomizing into single-unit apartments would be far more expensive, even if its the sort of thing the American culture tells you to do.
It’s really hard
Inflation driving prices up. Wage stagnation dragging the working class down. It absolutely fucking sucks all around.
But the statistic seems to focus on the people who have a family to stay with, while missing the people paying through the nose for a single-bedroom unit or live out of their cars or on a friend’s couch.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
i suspect early 20s, they are expected to move out by then on thier own, either in college, or living somewhere else.
Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Also curious to know why multigenerational households are something we’re supposed to be afraid of. This is normal practically everywhere else in the world.
Exactly my thoughts every time I read these fearmongering/shaming headlines about people living with their parents. The Anglosphere always pretends this is a global norm that everyone around the world aspires to.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
it seems more common in america, than in other countries. i think the “independant” propaganda is to encourage low wage worker supply would never disappear.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It works for the top and that’s all we count evidently
m3t00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
the whole ‘tax sale’ thing in most counties has always looked obscene. especially when buyers are mostly rich. putting unfortunate people out on the street when they just extract more money. that has to be a carry-over from UK roots.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
An octopus has hundreds of thousands of children, with perhaps only a few expected to reach adulthood.
Billionaires have us.
hayvan@piefed.world 2 months ago
The system works exactly as intended. This is Free Market in its full glory!
kip@piefed.zip 2 months ago
yeah things are fucked but not getting booted out when you hit eighteen is pretty normal. what does ‘young adults’ mean here?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Better idea:
- every dollar you make in income over 10M is taxed at 100%
- net worth over 1B is assessed an annual tax of 2%
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
A €10,000,000 income still means the poor may earn only 1/1000th of that.
I think it’s better to look at total net worth, and tax over that, with the prohibition of raising costs onto the labourer.
saimen@feddit.org 1 month ago
The system works perfectly. It’s a democratic system in which the majority of people decide. And they decided they want to get screwed by billionaires. What’s the problem?