Choose Life.
Choose a job.
Choose a career.
Choose a family.
Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers.
Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance.
Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments.
Choose a starter home.
Choose your friends.
Choose leisurewear and matching luggage.
Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics.
Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning.
Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.
Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves.
There's one thing I'm getting more and more angry abut wrt #GenZ and their approach to live, work, and business:
Being raised in the 70s and 80s, I do know how things involving service and technology (yes, this includes mechanical things, too) used to work when run properly. Being now in my late forties, I'm both able and willing to pay decent prices and fees. Not being a retired #Boomer, I neither have time nor patience to have each and everything fixed again and again
Sure, boomers make the larger group of consumers and clients and they might be fine with shitty service and constant replies “ooops, I forgot”, “ooops, it's not turned on”, “ooops, it did work yesterday”, “ooops, nobody uses it like we wrote in the instructions, we did not test them.”
I'm not.
But maybe fancy happy #GenZ does not need the money from the 40 and 50y olds as target group, And just having fun breaking things pays their rent?
RW media/Rs have been radicalizing voters for yrs, but recently⬆️it.
2024: Rs/Ds each=ID as ~27% of voters, I's=~43%, many: #GenZ:💙have no interest in #TFG or #fascism.
>13K messages published by TFG on TS: found him vowing revenge, retaliation & retribution agst his foes. #TFG has threatened to use the fed govt to go after Biden during a 2nd Trump admin 25X since beg. of 2023 & threatened or suggested the FBI & DOJ should take action agst senators, judges, Biden’s fam-. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/02/trump-social-media-threats
REMINDER: corporatism IS fascism. USA's political elites are controlled by unelected corporatist oligarchs for whom politics isn't about party or nation but business. checkout how the DNC wants to price out the little people from their fundraisers. this is literal corporate capture but with political parties because oligarchs only care about the state violence they can capture & profit from.
Das die Dating-Apps hauptsächlich eine Datensammlung inkl. überhöten Gewinne sind, ist nicht neu aber leider glauben noch zu viele daran, hauptsächlich Männer – egal ob ernsthafte Beziehung oder nicht.
»Tschau, Tinder: Junge Frauen immer weniger an Datingapps interessiert:
In der Gen Z ist die Kluft zwischen den Geschlechtern auf den Verkupplungsportalen besonders groß«
No, it just means they're swapping one gold rush for another. Watch as the value of vocational #Trades plummets due to oversupply, like the value of undergraduate degrees did.
This, of course, is why framing education as a financial investment is a silly idea.
"#GenZ students are choosing a trade over #College. That shows they’re smart
"Young people are increasingly opting to train as plumbers, electricians, welders and carpenters and similar vocations..."
You seldom see strong fashion stories on @medium (a shame IMO, because we all wear clothes and they say so much about us). But the young Medium writer Jee Young Park show how well they can work in this story that defends the controversial 2024 MetGala by showing how much she valued the museum as a Korean-American growing up in New Jersey:
Nearly half of Gen Z and millennial workers have left a job, or plan to, because of climate concerns
BYOrianna Rosa Royle
4–5 minutes
The era of “global boiling” is here, sending shivers down young worker’s spines. But instead of sitting with their anxiety, Gen Z and millennials are trying to save the planet by quitting jobs that aren’t eco-friendly.
I have some #GenZ coworkers and was telling them about how we used to take our car stereo face plates with us when we left the car back in the days when stereos weren't integrated into the dash and you wanted a nice one.
Young people generally do believe in a higher power. To their credit, they do not believe in hatred, greed, or hypocrisy. Those raised in hateful churches are looking for another way to connect with the divine.
Good for them for grasping what is most important for that journey: love for others. They may feel lost, but they are going in the right direction by leaving places that basically worship white cis het identity.