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Someone tell her the economy is doing great.
(hexbear.net)
“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.”
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.
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.
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.