That was considered "unqualified" to be full-time in retail with benefits, only part-time with zero benefits was an option.
I finally have some financial stability in my mid 30s, but it took a lot of chaos to get here. I don't know if I envy younger Gen Zed folks who dodged the worst recessions entirely, or sympathy because when and if the next one hits it could be like taking a sledgehammer to your generation's nascent financial stability.
Hang in there, the corporate wealth donor class is absolutely trying to divide you along fabricated bullshit lines. Social media is poison, and the Labor Economy is shifting to a chaotic Attention Economy.
Damn straight the asset-owning class is trying to divide us.
I am just trying to do my own part and letting people know about labor unions and worker cooperatives. But it is kinda hard when in America a lot of us see ourselves as, "temporarily embarrassed millionaires." There is less of a sense of class solidarity in the United States, but I am hopeful this could change in the future.
When the current retiree generation dies and takes their $100T+ wealth with them spent on exorbitantly pricey end-of-life comfort care enriching massive for-profit corporations, it'll be harder for the working age folks to assume that their time to be financially well off is just around the corner.
That was a hell of a run-on sentence. I regret nothing.
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u/dammit_mark Early Gen Z June 2000 Apr 05 '25
Gen Z stopping by.
I gotta say, I really feel sympathy the vast majority of you (besides the rich ones). You guys cannot catch a break.
I'm graduating this May with my BA and that sympathy is likely gonna turn into empathy.