• korazail@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          Afaik, yes. But. It doesn’t take effect until late this year. The synthetic THC industry is pretty damn big, though, and I’m holding out hope that we get some lobbying that supports things actual people want for once, and that turns into a bill making it legal instead of a loophole in an annual farm bill.

          Call your senators and reps.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      7 days ago

      Lol, yeah. There’s almost always something. I (and I think most millenials) had the housing crisis/economic crash as we entered the age of employment.

  • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    55·
    7 days ago

    I really worry about the younger generations, they’re growing up in a toxic landscape of end stage capitalism. I’m worried they’ll think this is normal like a kid in an abusive household. This isn’t normal, this is beyond reproach in how abnormal it is. Please, fight with us.

    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      Did you think the world was good before 1970? Are you a person of color in the US? This is capitalism. This is normal capitalism. It’s just white people feel it now too. The enslaved white employees are finally now feeling what capitalism does because they no longer benefit from it as the rich white were tolerant of until recently.

      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
        3·
        6 days ago

        Life was materially much harder but in the early 20th century there were real labour movements and tight communities and that counts for a lot. We have to find a way to recreate connections and a shared sense of struggle (but without pining for some glorified imaginary past like the fascists), but it might just take conditions getting a lot worse still to drive people to that.

      • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        6 days ago

        Before Reagan there was more unionization, more push for workers rights and increase of wages. But I do agree with you, if you’re a POC, this is a Tuesday for you.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      One of the things that bolsters my resolve is seeing how much more politically engaged the youth of today are (though given that I’m one of the youngest Millennials and I’m 29, I’m not sure that Gen Z count as “the youth” any more). Some of it is a bit concerning, in that some of them are becoming politically engaged with right wing reactionary though, but the vast majority of what I’ve seen has been much more positive.

      I was talking to a teen the other month who tried using they/them pronouns for a little while, to see how it felt, because there were a few non binary people in his year, which made him feel curious. That blew my mind and made me feel hopeful.

      I’m disabled, so I’m not really able to attend protests easily, but there have been a few times where I have given people lifts to protests. I like being people’s protest mom. It makes me feel nice to be able to act as a steward for the younger generation. In my experience, they’re unable to comprehend that what we’re living under isn’t normal, because for them, it is. However, this seems to just strengthen their enthusiasm for radical change. All they know is that what they’re currently experiencing is intolerable for them, and so they have no choice but to resist. It’s sad, but admirable to see. In resisting, they also find that building solidarity and community also helps bolster their individual resilience, as well as their movement’s

      • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        7 days ago

        Always nice to hear some positivity in a world drowned by negative, thank you. I just hope alpha come of age into this mess, go “this isn’t right” as well and start learning.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        This might be a hot take but being a extremist is better than not participating at all

        The tradeoff is that extremists tend to avoid critical thinking

  • HalfSalesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    361·
    7 days ago

    Boomers had it good.

    Gen X had it mediocre.

    Millenials and Gen Z have been shafted.

    Given the state of education, economy, and politics, Alpha is straight up doomed.

    • JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone
      61·
      6 days ago

      Nobody realised at first but gen Alpha isnt named as suchbecause they looped the back around after ‘Z’, but its actually the first gen in NewGame+ mode.

  • Lumelore (She/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    I graduated college last year and I’m still in unemployment hell. I have a CS degree so now I’m too overqualified for retail and too underqualified for tech jobs, despite the fact that I have made numerous projects and have tried my best to upskill, I’m still not good enough apparently. It is super frustrating and demotivating to wake up to rejection emails month after month after month.

      • EldenLord@lemmy.world
        11·
        6 days ago

        Pretty much, yeah. You need to know someone who knows someone who‘s a higher up at the place you want to work at. Especially for internships.

        I get why it is like that. Companies want someone who actually is interested in doing good work and socially connecting with their coworkers.

        Especially in tech where there‘s hella competition it pays to have those extra few % of productivity. Also, a hostile environment in IT can go very wrong very fast (remember the guy deleting all data after being let go)

  • Formfiller@lemmy.world
    19·
    6 days ago

    As a millennial I’m going to lose my shit if they try to draft my only child after the shitshow I’ve survived

  • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    7 days ago

    This is my first time reading the phrase, “age of enjoyment.” I guess I wasn’t ever meant to know that I missed out entirely?

  • PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world
    21·
    6 days ago

    If you’re good at tech and can talk to people. Look for Sales Engineer and Solution engineering roles. We can’t be replaced by Ai in these roles. Yet.

    • Tilgare@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 days ago

      I mean, the math isn’t hard here, given the obvious pandemic time marker: College aged. If you were born in 2000, you couldn’t, in the middle of a pandemic, go out to the bar with friends for a drink on your 21st birthday for instance. And just generally, people’s early 20s often slowly ramp up, a fun warm up to proper adulthood; a time where expenses are at the lowest they’ll be for the rest of your entire life and the world hasn’t beaten you down mercilessly yet; so yeah, I imagine some of that what OP meant.

        • Tilgare@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 days ago

          Oh definitely, Y2K babies got thrust into adulthood rapidly at 20 thanks to the pandemic but at least they made it through school without hiccups. Kids not much younger than them have had a rough go too.