The most burned-out generation yet.
yeah. the energy and determination of youth has kept GenZ from burning out yet, but they went through covid during what should have been the peak years of their life.
on the other hand, us Millennials are cursed with remembering how things used to be better. sometimes I wish I didn’t.
Well Gen Z only hears and sees the beautified pink tinted version of history on how life used to be - not sure that’s any better
Of course they’re not as burned out as us; they’re younger and haven’t been beaten down for as long. I’m sure they’ll get there in time, but we need to stop this intergenerational infighting and focus on what’s really important: putting everyone over 50 in camps and redistributing their wealth.
And even if they never have it like us, then good. I want younger generations to have it better. I know what its like to be handed a shit deal
I want my son to grow up in a world with so much oversight and regulation that he takes government protections for granted and dismantles them for tax breaks. Is that so much to ask?
A bit extreme
Found one for the camps!
Let’s start with Florida and see how it goes
That’s where I was gonna build the camps.
This whole Gen vs Gen bullcrap is a bourgeois distraction attempt. Don’t buy into any of it. There is no Gen vs Gen, it’s bourgeois vs proletariat.
Nope we’re not doing this again. It’s not like that. Were all equally fucked on average. Let’s not be crabs in a bucket.
But… but… I’m a lobster and she’s a crayfish!
That right!
And you call this gestures vaguely around a bucket‽ More like some kind of high walled vessel.
It’s a safety basement. We’re in it because of safety!
These terms like “Gen X” or “Millennials” are just as meaningful as astrological signs. In other words: They aren’t.
These supposed generational differences are utter nonsense. There’s no scientific research behind them. There are always people with different experiences and biographical backgrounds, but no entire generation experiences the same background.
But there are some similarities throughout a cadre. For example one generation lived through the Great Depression, another through WW2, and yet another through the black plague. It doesn’t mean that whole cadres experiences are exactly the same and ubiquitous across the globe, but it does mean it shares some environmental characteristics that are useful for categorization.
While it may not be very useful in many contexts, it absolutely isn’t the same as astrology.
The question is: how much impact do such shared experiences have? This is usually overinterpreted. Even with all people who experienced the Second World War, one cannot say that they all automatically share the same character traits. There are millions of other individual factors that also have a biographical and epigenetic impact and thus great diversity will always arise.
Don’t let the Mainstream Media incite any war but a Class War.
Gen Z may think they have it rough but millennials are the most burned-out generation
What, you think they’d report on anything useful to keep their role as the Fourth Estate? Naaah. CLICKBAIIIIIT!!
Didn’t know being mentally unwell is a competition, but bring it on
Call forth the therapists and let them do battle for our honor
Everyone is calling out (rightfully so) the divisive bait but I think there is some interesting reason worth discussing behind this:
Some Gen Z folks used the wisdom of millennials and just said fuck it and checked out, their lives might not be great but it’s probably stress free.
Whereas for millennials, in theory having the American dream was possible, just less likely as time progressed. They are stuck with an almost sunken cost fallacy in which they have tried so hard cause they believed with enough effort they would make it. Now that they are burned out, they are faced with the dilemma of either stop trying and waste the high efforts or keep going and maybe they will get lucky.
So in conclusion, millennials having it better can backfire in some sense.
The only reason this can be even slightly true is strictly because of age. We are ALL burnt out. They will be where millennial are in just a few years. We gotta stop this gen VS gen nonsense.
I’m 42 and I’ve been burned out since 1983.
*counts on fingers*
Shit man
You’ve got quite a few fingers
The first eviction is the worst.
With increased demands on this specific generation of caregivers, other studies have shown that it’s in a company’s best interest to ensure millennials have the resources and benefits that they need to succeed.
That’s not gonna happen. Workers must toil to make more profits for the people at the top or they will be replaced.
My own personal idea to reduce burnout: democracy.
People never shut up about how we supposedly live in a free democratic society and spend 40+ hours in a fucking facist dictatorship.
Also if you don’t like your boss it should be legally permissible, even encouraged, to be able to hit them in the face once with a tire iron.
Fuck that. Every generation throws a hero up the pop shart.
GenX here. We plan to work full time until we are dead. We have no retirement savings. Get bent.
if you don’t have any savings, that’s on you.
Don’t worry, GenZ will eventually get even more burnt out than us. They’re just not there yet. We all have it rough.
I’m not even sure if this is relevant. What is relevant though: we are all burned out and instead of asking who’s the most burned out we should probably fight the cause, because that’s the same for all generations: capitalism
hear hear, it’s not team sports, it’s everyone’s fucking life, we all share this place and this time
Instead of comparing our burn outs we should be burning the people holding us captive.
Why do you think genz will get more burnt out than us?
Because everything that has made life worse for millennials, is not fixed, not even a little bit, and is not going to be fixed. It is going to keep getting worse and it is not clear people are even really trying to fix anything anymore because we are, as the article points out, burned out. There is almost nothing on the horizon that has much potential for making anything any better or easier for anybody, and the few things that do have that potential, like AI and automation, are very clearly (to me) going to be misused for exploiting humans in almost every possible way and making life harder not easier for the vast majority of the human population which likely includes everybody commenting here.
GenZ may instead get burned-out literally – from their homes, as humanity continues to work mindlessly towards a goal of creating enough heat to set the entire planet on fire, but maybe the rising oceans will put some of the fires out. Families and mental health and the fabric of society will continue to fray. Prices will keep rising. The wealth gap will continue expanding. Lawlessness and homelessness will become rampant. Democracy will continue to slide towards corporate tyranny and fascism, and peace begins to make way for conflict and war.
Time plus exponential decline.
The frequency with which once-in-a-generation calamities are occurring.
Fuck, man. I’m at 3.5 and I ain’t even 40 yet.
As a college grad from the dot-com school, I feel ya.
