Someone tell her the economy is doing great.

In no way could the country's young people having plenty of spare time but no ability to pay for the necessities of life possibly be a recipe for a disaster

Anytime I hear "The economy is doing great" I parse it as "The king is so wealthy. The Lord of treasury boasts of his boundless coffers, he is rich, so I am too."

she’s not the first Gen Zer to complain about feeling tricked into pursuing further education.

A growing trend in business news journals is to tell people that pursuing college degrees is some kind of trap. It is downright sinister how the response to the student debt crisis has simply been to lie to young people about their future job prospects without a college degree.

If a Fortune Magazine reporter comes at you with a microphone, remember that you are acting in self-defense when you draw and fire.

One of the highest paid people I know got her first job out of school at her parents' company. Wonder if that had anything to do with it.

I just applied to a nursing home dietary aid the other day and never got even a fuck you back, college degree too lmao

Something about the picture of a crying young woman, the word choice of "humbled" and the publication this is in is giving me the distinct impression that this was written for bosses and Scott Adams/David Sedaris types to metaphorically jerk off to the humbling of those naive kids who think they're too good for poverty.

Just last month, 27-year-old Robbie Scott similarly went viral on TikTok for insisting that Gen Z isn’t any less willing to work than generations before. Instead, he said, they are “getting angry and entitled and whiny” about the prospect of having to work hard for the rest of their adult life, only to “get nothing in return.”

I imagine having been told to spend so much money so they can get a job that pays it off has a lot to do with their anger. Cant say I'd blame them really.

I've been filing out 20-50 apps weekly for 6 months. I have actual experience too. I'm still unemployed. But I have double depression, double burnout from trying to get a job and keep up with both programming and IT/networking, I am also in shutdown-lite™️ mode, have meltdowns 3-5 times a week and cry 2-3 times a day. I'm a 40 year old man and we have 2 kids and a single income(teacher salary). Can I go viral too?

How dare people call us lazy when we literally are NOT ALLOWED TO WORK?

I can't work if no one gives me permission to work, idiots. In a just world, these porks will be threatened prison time if they don't cough up the jobs.

If she has degrees in communication & acting, that is to say (no judgement implied ofc) that she is a trained liar, and you really shouldn't believe anything she says.

This is in fact her jobs pitch, because she wants to work in the media, she did not in fact hand out resumes to minimum wage jobs and has no intention of working one, probably everything in the article is false these kind of 'experience/perspective' pieces usually are.

edit: perhaps 'storyteller' is a more polite way of saying it. But aside from that ("I'm a story teller & have always wanted to be one, in fact I studied how to tell storys and give performences, now let me tell you a true story about my experience - I even cry") the fact its reported in Business Insider, Fortune dot com, Daily Mail, should really tell you its wholesale fabrication.

Newspapers don't generally run pieces featuring anyone below the kind of 'minor gentry' class in a sympathetic light like this. They do run pieces (often fabricated) from people of their own class who are supposed to create a relatable crafted narrative for the lower orders.

he said, they are “getting angry and entitled and whiny” about the prospect of having to work hard for the rest of their adult life, only to “get nothing in return.”

"You will own nothing... And you will be happy."

She has degrees in communication and acting, if she just has that without a bunch of skills/experience to go with it, I'm not surprised that min wage jobs are ignoring her. Like it sounds kinda harsh but why would Starbucks care about your acting degree?

Chomsky is a liberal sellout but the last section of this paragraph from a 1996 speech of his has imprinted itself on my mind:

So for example, Brazil. There’s a terrific economic miracle under the neo-Nazi Generals that we installed with great self-adulation back in the 60s. And by 1971 it had become the Latin American darling of the business community. And the President, the General who ran the place, pointed out that the economy is doing fine, it’s just that the people aren’t.

Don’t worry, I’m sure Matt Walsh will take time out of his busy schedule of refusing to do household chores to admonish her for being lazy.

She recieved responses???

The economy sucks and capitalism is evil, but I’m also kinda relieved that yuppie white kids are finally suffering financially like the rest of us. I’m really hoping that the collective pain will lead to class solidarity.

2 degrees and still minimum wage? Gosh.

Lotta very cynical crabs in a bucket In this thread.

First off: sure this is a psyop, whatever, fine. What does it accomplish for the capitalist class exactly? To demoralized us and create inter worker schaudenfreude? Seems to be working great! Look yeah she’s definitely “performing” because anyone filming themselves for social media is by definition, and, we all are in some form or another. Does not invalidate the suffering she’s experiencing.

Second off: yes, it is good that the immiseration of Capitalism is finally catching up with the Mayo ass children of privilege in this country. Way overdue. But to engage so gleefully in schaudenfreude at the suffering of this young persons whose life force is being drained out of them through the exact same exploitative process we are all victim of. Truly anathema to what we claim to stand for here. And more importantly, it denies the most singularly crucial tool we have as workers in the struggle against capitalism; Solidarity.

I am sorry for all of you that your cynicism has grown so strong it has denied you the empathic capacity that is necessary for solidarity.

This is narcissistic theatrics for content, nothing else. Move along.

NGL, kinda reassuring seeing people from privileged backgrounds which allowed them not only to get one degree, but two!!!, struggling more like people from disadvantaged backgrounds. I couldn't finish a degree because I had to work a lot, with work hiring me for my student status, knowingly scheduling work during university hours, not paying me enough for me to have food at the end of the month after paying rent, with me having no time or energy to study due to hunger and exhaustion, already having had missed lectures due to the scheduled shifts. They will still eventually get far ahead of me, but maybe they develop some empathy.

I'm so tired of people who had the privilege to finish a degree looking down on people who didn't have the material conditions to do so...

Not working well for steam major like me neither, doesn't work for anyone I know that stayed in Hellmurica to the point I try to help college students I encounter (majority are also poor) since I'd be impressed to see someone 'succeed' into a STEM career (or any tbh) of some sort that doesn't have to emigrate first with my own eyes. As far as I know it doesn't matter what you major in nor how many degrees, the fuck you're doing anything related and good luck getting anything at all.

Then asshole boomers and petite bourgeois or outright bourgeois sit around calling everyone lazy because they refuse to hire the unemployed or those who wish not to be exploited stand up for themselves a little. Classes are ossified then throw on all the bigotry, they make us attack each other instead of them, welcome to hell.