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Young people today are sad nerds
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Some obnoxious ghoul-to-ghoul communication on one of the porkrags. The article looks at a study showing how young people have been drained of their hope for the future by capitalism and concludes:
After reading all that, you might be feeling a bit sad yourself. But don‘t worry: Bernstein reckons this is, broadly, good for capitalism. Its analysts see positives across most categories, such as: greater restaurant spend (as young people give up on cooking), more luxury goods spending (as young people try to fill the empty voids inside their souls), and more vaping (ditto).
Hooray for the soul-vitiating nihilism at the bus of history's last stop!
I saw today some silly pop sci article about a study (maybe the same one idk) showing that young people have uphended human, no primate nature by being so sad. You see, for millions of trillions of years of monkey-kind, mid life crises were normal. Duh. But now for the first time in ever, as the study shows, young people are as sad as middle age people
The reason you ask? Cell phones
https://www.iflscience.com/young-people-are-now-so-unhappy-that-theyve-changed-a-fundamental-pattern-of-life-75117
It’s curious to me how much American mass media is built on the assumption that a very early-mid 20th century status quo would last forever. Kind of a recurring problem, I notice.