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https://fortune.com/2024/02/09/gen-z-grad-two-degrees-breaks-down-tears-minimum-wage-employers-resume-in-person/

“I was so upset and disappointed in myself because growing up, I was told that if I get an education, if I go to college, then I’ll be successful,” Santos told Business Insider—and she’s not the first Gen Zer to complain about feeling tricked into pursuing further education.

Just last month, 27-year-old Robbie Scott similarly went viral on TikTok for insisting that Gen Z isn’t any less willing to work than generations before. Instead, he said, they are “getting angry and entitled and whiny” about the prospect of having to work hard for the rest of their adult life, only to “get nothing in return.”

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[-] whatup@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

The economy sucks and capitalism is evil, but I’m also kinda relieved that yuppie white kids are finally suffering financially like the rest of us. I’m really hoping that the collective pain will lead to class solidarity.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

It won't, they'll just get more racist

65% of white people will have to be dragged kicking and screaming into a better future no matter which scenario eventuates

[-] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago
[-] whatup@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago
[-] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

getting a degree is not an indication of yuppiehood, do you still live in the fucking 70s? People working hard and getting no return is not a good thing, and these people are workers that you're cheering for the downfall of.

[-] whatup@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

and these people are workers that you're cheering for the downfall of.

Chill. I’m not cheering their downfall, just recognizing that people from more privileged backgrounds are less likely to fight against capitalism unless it fucks them over personally.

do you still live in the fucking 70s

Obviously not if white girls who got to go to college can’t even get a service industry job. Clearly, the well is drying up and everybody’s feeling the pinch.

[-] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

accelerationist garbage. People from privileged background are just less willing to fiht it period, as long as it benefits them, and they're still doing better. Now they'll fight harder for scraps.

And it's also the black girl that went to college, and the asian guy and Native American. Most people that go to college are white because most people in the country are white, it has not been a symbol of class or whiteness in particular for a while now.

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