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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

[-] TimmytheDragon@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

2 degrees and still minimum wage? Gosh.

[-] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

Lotta very cynical crabs in a bucket In this thread.

First off: sure this is a psyop, whatever, fine. What does it accomplish for the capitalist class exactly? To demoralized us and create inter worker schaudenfreude? Seems to be working great! Look yeah she’s definitely “performing” because anyone filming themselves for social media is by definition, and, we all are in some form or another. Does not invalidate the suffering she’s experiencing.

Second off: yes, it is good that the immiseration of Capitalism is finally catching up with the Mayo ass children of privilege in this country. Way overdue. But to engage so gleefully in schaudenfreude at the suffering of this young persons whose life force is being drained out of them through the exact same exploitative process we are all victim of. Truly anathema to what we claim to stand for here. And more importantly, it denies the most singularly crucial tool we have as workers in the struggle against capitalism; Solidarity.

I am sorry for all of you that your cynicism has grown so strong it has denied you the empathic capacity that is necessary for solidarity.

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