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They're going to do Occupy Wall Street but in Roblox.

Meanwhile the Democrats are trying to invent new categories of cognitive dissonance to pretend that class politics is irrelevant and that Zohran Mamdani is only popular because of good cinematography.

Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1nioysg/this_seems_bad/

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[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 42 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Poor GenZ and Gen Alpha, man. I really feel like my generation let them down.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 39 points 5 days ago (1 children)

not sure what we were supposed to do, most of us never got going to begin with

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think the main thing we can do is just not red-nosed-reindeer for capitalism, and keep resisting into old age. If nothing else; we can be mass.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

Please. I would fucking love it if one day, I was laughing with my grandkids and we were discussing how we got affordable housing and universal healthcare done in a relatively short amount of time after millennials got their act together.

“So grandpa, what made you join this movement?”

“Because…no one ever gave me anything!”

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Millennials own the banks?

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago

I mean, I just wish we'd rebelled more

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

Squatter's rights from Occupy Wall Street

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 5 days ago

Don't worry, well let you down too given the chance

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We tried. Some of us tried? Are still trying?

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm still trying the best I can

If nothing else; you are mass.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"Help with mortgage" + "what is a mortgage and how do I even get one?"

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm a millennial and can't even fathom the idea of not being stuck renting apartments for the rest of my life lmao

I'm right in the middle and have no great chance to get a home even though I'm in a very decent paying job...

Like $10k over what was once considered "comfortable wage". I haven't been on a vacation in years, I don't really spend money except when I go get a couple cheap beers at my local dives, I don't buy new things, I live in a dilapidated 100 year old house (for $2000/month).

Everyone just keeps telling me to save and I'm like, all the leeches take their cut and I'm broke after ever paycheck...

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Internet penetration in 2008 was shit comparatively.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 40 points 6 days ago

That's true, but the Google trends ranking is relative to the time period. The higher share of searches it had at the time, the higher the score.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

In most of the rich world internet connectivity was fairly complete by that point at most homes and workplaces. Just not the mobile internet. Yes smartphones existed, but very few people had them until well into the 2010s.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe

Shiller PE ratio also seems pretty interesting. Technically not at an all-time-high, but higher than before 2008 crash and the great depression. Just the dot-com bust that exceeded this. Maybe we can combine the dotcom tech bubble collapse and the housing market collapse of the great recession into one this time?

[–] coolusername@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

look at M2 though. free money
and the trump admin is ok with openly rigging stats even though they were already rigged. no liquidity issues in banks.

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 5 days ago

First as farce, then as farce

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

Setting up for a big cup and handle. I'm going long on misery shares

[–] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

that graph is pretty wild

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