So I’m a zoomer (yippee) and let me tell you I don’t know a single person my age who considers retirement or home ownership a part of their future. It is just so painfully obviously out of reach and to be clear these people are in college or have a degree. Most of them do not consider kids a feasible choice for both financial and moral reasons. The ones who want kids always preface that dream with “one day if I somehow get rich”. I know a handful of people who have admitted to looking for a relationship out of a desire for financial security at as young as 21.
Even the people who were born lucky, the one’s from money I mean, are concerned their ability to achieve what they want will fall away from them.
Zoomers don’t care about work ethic or decorum because there is literally no incentive to do so.
I didn’t even touch on the ecological despair but it is endemic.
You’ve summed it up well, everybody our age knows the system is a failure. Its just a matter of if that sends you into hopelessness, some reactionary orientation, or if we direct that energy into organizing and liberatory action. It’s such an uphill battle though
So I’m a zoomer (yippee) and let me tell you I don’t know a single person my age who considers retirement or home ownership a part of their future. It is just so painfully obviously out of reach and to be clear these people are in college or have a degree. Most of them do not consider kids a feasible choice for both financial and moral reasons. The ones who want kids always preface that dream with “one day if I somehow get rich”. I know a handful of people who have admitted to looking for a relationship out of a desire for financial security at as young as 21.
Even the people who were born lucky, the one’s from money I mean, are concerned their ability to achieve what they want will fall away from them.
Zoomers don’t care about work ethic or decorum because there is literally no incentive to do so.
I didn’t even touch on the ecological despair but it is endemic.
You’ve summed it up well, everybody our age knows the system is a failure. Its just a matter of if that sends you into hopelessness, some reactionary orientation, or if we direct that energy into organizing and liberatory action. It’s such an uphill battle though