Fuckin preach. I'm 33 and have spent the last 8 years in near total isolation because I simply do not have time for anything other than work, chores, feed and bathe myself (if I have time), sleep. That's it. It's deepening my depression and sense of total desperation in ways that I'd never imagined. But hey, at least my company is making billions because that's the truly important part. I'm ready to just say fuck it and go the way of Gen Z. I've saved and saved and worked my ass off, played by the rules, got my degree and it's all been for nothing. I still have nothing. In fact I literally have less than when I was in my 20s. There's nothing I can do to stop another economic crisis and I'm no where near having enough to survive one so fuck it. I'm ready to just do what I want and if that gets me fired or Im in debt because I finally decided to just take the hit and travel wherever I want then so be it. There's nothing we can do, we're on the ride, the clicking of the chains has already started and we are buckled in. Time to just enjoy what we can I guess, even if it sucks the entire time.

Maybe eventually when time marches on and we become the majority (I’m 23) we can make good positive social change. In some ways, while living through it is bad; the hardship and unfairness of the system is preventing the usual trend of people becoming more conservative as they age; so perhaps there is hope for things getting better in the future. We just have to keep trying; we can’t give in to cynicism.

Stronger? Sure. Wiser? Definitely. Happier? Hell to the no lol

Yeah thats cool. But I'd rather be a white dude growing up in the 60s. 🤷‍♂️

Life on easy difficulty.

Good take, but I think it ignores a lot.

We're stronger, wiser and ultimately happier for it, despite outward appearances

Mainly here. Yes everything people are getting is from their own actions, but it completely ignores the people that haven't gotten anything from the struggle, which is a growing number of people. It also disregards people that don't have the opportunity to carve their own way at all.

There is still a bar that needs to be met to get anywhere, and it is just getting higher in may places. Sure once you hit the bar, you're in a better spot and can see that the struggle paid off, but if you never get to the bar, if you never get to the point of "keeping your head at the water", there is no payoff. These people just get to struggle. That's all there is, and there is only so much of that before the struggle isn't worth the payoff anymore.

The saiyan viewpoint, just wait until the weights come off!

How many of us do you think are gonna be around or capable of it, I'm pushing 40 and I'm fucked, the thought of another 30 years sounds exhausting.

(Sorry mom & dad, nothing personal)

Retirement and a nursing home are no longer economically feasible and my landlord doesn't allow additional residents, so good luck out there mom & dad.

Jeez you made me think about how much fucked up shit I've been through.

1. Publicized school shootings on TV 90s
2. Watching the second plane crash on live TV on 9/11
3. Medical trauma 1: had testicular torsion ,went in 12 hours after it started, they tried to untwist it by hand while I was conscious, morphine ain't shit
4. Medical trauma 2: spontaneous pneumothorax, the ketamine they dosed me with didn't work so that chest tube insertion fucked me up
5. PMTSD related anxiety and depression
6. 2 more pneumothorax
7. 2008 financial crisis
8. college went well, but first job out of college after I got my computer engineering degree payed a fucking grand total of $51k.
9. 2016 election
10. Hit 250lbs
11. 2019 my highschool sweetheart wife cheated on me
12. COVID-19
13. Hit 280 lbs
14. Jan 6 insurrection
15. Stagflation
16. Lost 70lbs because of cutting back on food spending and weightloss medication
17. discovered my wife sexting the guy she cheated on me with after being in marriage therapy for 4 years
18. hit 250lbs again

Jesus christ, is this resilience, or are we all so burnt out that we just accept everything getting worse always.

Like I get the joke in Russia is "and then it got worse." But Jesus christ, it can't get worse if it's always bad can it?

In 20 years. We are working on the speed run.

The Earth will always be here. We, on the other hand...

Same here. Recently went to a doctor for some internal stuff, and she's like "well, we want to prevent x, y, and z from progressing too fast because..."

And part of me wants to just interrupt and be like "what's the fuckin' point? Have you seen outside?"

Citizens United baby, we were removed from the equation.

Implying they'd give a damn anyway.

They'll do it again, I'm sure.

And the government will take our tax dollars and bail them out again, I'm sure of that too.

We'll get nothing except the right to continue to work for minimum wage, and we're expected to thank them for the "privilege" of having a job.

It's a wonderful life.

You can't just say that and not post it lol