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China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’
(www.wsj.com)
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I would expect nothing of the sort. They're already been misdirected into the blanket "boomers bad" mentality, that all the old people living in poverty are somehow to blame for all their ills.
The ruling class will continue to rule, because they know exactly how to manipulate the plebs.
Of course it's the super rich, but who is voting for policies that support the super rich? It's not young people.
Well the young don't vote at all most of the time.
But when was the last time you saw a party with policies that didn't support the super rich? Since Reagan, no matter if the president wears a red or blue tie, the rich have gotten richer.
The only choice is how much poorer the poor get, with a side order of "other" hate. When the Zoomers are 50, don't worry. There'll be a whole new bunch of "others" to hate on, to distract them from the fact that they can just barely pay the rent. The boomers thought they'd be different too. Peace and love and hippies and Woodstock. Gen Z will be no different.
This but with the emphasis on the people who got fucking killed or put in prison or aged out of the ability for revolutionary action, while the rest of them kind of, left those guys to rot in jail, and went on to just exist passively in the system, and purport the same hippie mentalities, and then get sorted, just the same as last time. Power corrupts and is magnetic to the easily corruptible.
You know, I do wonder if, as the contradiction builds, and the farce kind of becomes more obvious, with like, the starbucks pride month rainbow logo while they also crush their unions, I wonder if everyone will make progress along that, as the marxists kind of tend to predict, with the whole "capital contains the seeds of it's own destruction" spiel. I dunno. I think probably people don't give a shit about contradiction though and are free to just keep living with a totally normalized cognitive dissonance.
Oh you're just doing some "both sides" doomerism. Got it.
Aw, reading comprehension too much for you?
Haha okay dude, you're clearly out of touch with the youth these days. Gen Z says "okay boomer" and that's pretty much it en masse. Gen Z is however not putting up with corporate bullshit as much.