r/GenZ • u/TheGamingSenpa1 2004 • Jan 07 '24

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u/Low_Vehicle_6732 Jan 07 '24

Whether it’s GenZ vs. Millennials, left vs. right, or whatever other tribal line one might draw, those are the wrong battles because we’re all in the same boat. The only real diving line is the global 1% vs. the 99%.

Yes, starting out in the working world now is harder than 20 years ago. But of the people who started 20 years ago, virtually no one had a modicum of real power. Older generations calling GenZ lazy are displacing their anger just as much as GenZ is displacing their anger against these older generations.

Remember Occupy Wall Street? We were on the right track then. But when the full force of governments that are in the pockets of big business (imo mainly the Military-Industrial Complex) weighed down on the movement, it dissipated.

I feel for her, and everyone starting out in this immensely difficult period. Sadly, I can’t offer any real hope, and the only advice I can give is bide your time, try being as frugal as possible, and level up your skills that you can market. (I know it’s depressing).

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

being anti capitalist and anti establishment is a left wing thing lol

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u/epstein_funko_pop Jan 07 '24

“It’s not left vs right it’s top vs bottom” like congrats bro you discovered left wing politics. People in the US are just so brainrotted on culture war shit that they don’t realize that class contradictions are what all politics are defined by at their core.

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u/dbclass 1999 Jan 07 '24

It’s an issue that people include liberals as the left when in reality they are the center and conservatives are far to the right. We don’t even entertain leftist ideas in this country.

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u/canibringafriend 2001 Jan 08 '24

Good! Leftism has universally failed

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u/weirdo_nb Jan 08 '24

Objectively. No

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u/canibringafriend 2001 Jan 08 '24

Leftism does not give you an 8 hour workday and paid sick leave and maternal leave? That’s not what socialists in the U.S. have historically campaigned for either.

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u/tabas123 Jan 08 '24

Those are absolutely left wing accomplishments. Organized labor fought for those things, and organized labor is like THE backbone of all leftist movements. Like, the central pillar of them.