Search Results
ID: qFQmQmmV/pol/512427279#512452698
8/7/2025, 3:04:31 PM
>>512427279
>Do Boomers understand?
No, they don't understand.
>I see boomers generally not understanding that young people have a kind of hell life because there are no societal support structures for them.
This isn't hell. It could get A LOT worse. Is it much, much, more difficult to accumulate wealth for young adults today? Of course. Is it much, much, more difficult to get a date? Of course. This is obvious to us, but for Boomers, and Gen X, one only needed to work an average full-time job to accumulate enough wealth and be a functioning adult to obtain the "American Dream". To them, it's been 2005 for the last 20 years. They became young adults in a dream world. They were able to form their own comfortable little bubble, and everything else beyond that, is just headlines on the news, or some article on a website - something happening to people they don't know in a place and time they weren't present for. They are children of the Matrix. All they had to do was follow in the footsteps of their parents, and they could have a life. That is no longer the case. Things change and Millennials and Gen Z are the first and second generations of that change, and we are forced to adapt.
>Does anybody else here sink most of their energy into video games rather than real life because of this?
No, but how is that any different than a guy who spends thousands of dollars and thousands of hours playing golf? Whether it's vidya or golf, it's still a surrogate activity.
>It is really like they cannot see that the world just doesn't function for most of Gen Z and they are incapable of affording to have children.
They can't see beyond their own noses. To them the world hasn't changed in 20 years, because they're in their own little comfortable bubble, and they don't want to burst that.
>What future is there?
The future you make. If you're single, build the life you want for yourself.
>Do Boomers understand?
No, they don't understand.
>I see boomers generally not understanding that young people have a kind of hell life because there are no societal support structures for them.
This isn't hell. It could get A LOT worse. Is it much, much, more difficult to accumulate wealth for young adults today? Of course. Is it much, much, more difficult to get a date? Of course. This is obvious to us, but for Boomers, and Gen X, one only needed to work an average full-time job to accumulate enough wealth and be a functioning adult to obtain the "American Dream". To them, it's been 2005 for the last 20 years. They became young adults in a dream world. They were able to form their own comfortable little bubble, and everything else beyond that, is just headlines on the news, or some article on a website - something happening to people they don't know in a place and time they weren't present for. They are children of the Matrix. All they had to do was follow in the footsteps of their parents, and they could have a life. That is no longer the case. Things change and Millennials and Gen Z are the first and second generations of that change, and we are forced to adapt.
>Does anybody else here sink most of their energy into video games rather than real life because of this?
No, but how is that any different than a guy who spends thousands of dollars and thousands of hours playing golf? Whether it's vidya or golf, it's still a surrogate activity.
>It is really like they cannot see that the world just doesn't function for most of Gen Z and they are incapable of affording to have children.
They can't see beyond their own noses. To them the world hasn't changed in 20 years, because they're in their own little comfortable bubble, and they don't want to burst that.
>What future is there?
The future you make. If you're single, build the life you want for yourself.
Page 1