Lmao Gen Alpha are either going to be the most capitalist generation or they're going to rebel against capitalism hard (hexbear.net)

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Holy shit and I thought millennials and Gen X had it bad with how corporate our toys were.

I hate to be that person that's like "omg what kids like these days is poisoning them!" Especially because I come from the Mortal Kombat generation, but between Mr Beast, social media and shit like Roblox turning every hobby into a hussle I have to wonder what effect this will have on them.

Capitalism preying on kids was bad enough when I was a kid in the 90s and 00s (and from what I've seen from 80s cartoons, the generation before mine was pretty bad too), but it's a whole other level now.

Collapse is hitting hard and is only going to get worse though, so it is possible they'll go left.

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[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Boomers, Xoomers, and Millennial conservatives and libertarians think they’ll become the merchant warlords of the apocalypse, but they only ever fell for grifts. Zoomers - and as you said, particularly alphas - have not only been grifted but have it engrained in them that it’s based to do it to other people. And not bullshit grifts like “the american dream,” but quite literally learning to use computers to pull the crypto rug on your friends.

The old men will have their play time cosplaying as mad max in their suburbs while the new generation will torture everyone in the squid game content hustle to win a water ration ticket.