Hahahahaha

(Caveat: IDK if the polling company is reliable.)

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    Life hasn’t completely crush their ambitions yet. Their second economic collapse and my 4th should snuff out the light.

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    Social media and insta people are to blame. And these folks aren’t even rich, they rent everything.

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    Would anyone be surprised if there were literally zero human beings invovled in this story?

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    I mean, that’s by design.

    Americans have been trained to see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires from birth for half a century though oligarch captured public education and their for profit media. It’s quite useful, as those successfully deluded advocate against their own interests, like hating progressive taxation they’d benefit from as citizens, but would have to pay when, lol, they’re the rich ones at some undisclosed point in the future.

    It’s why we’re a bunch of rugged individuals at each other’s throats for oligarch scraps and are actively hostile towards the concept of ever being a society. So long as they’ve convinced us to fight one another hoping to beat our fellow citizens and “win,” as capitalism demands, we’ll never collectively demand equity.

    Fortunately for theoretical future generations born into this greed/exploitation trap, oligarch made climate change cannot be bribed, discredited, disappeared, cut in, or deluded into playing ball.

    Reality will assert itself, and quite violently going by the climate scientist’s projections and our species apparent lack of any sense of self preservation.

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      Just a single dollar bill, and everyone gets it for one day and can only spend it on another influencer. Reminds me of those dudes in college that are convinced it is ok that they are failing, because eventually people are going to pay millions to watch a stream of them playing video games in their filthy rooms. 🤣

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    I was recently forced to spend time with some gen Z people, and there was a girl who would go on and on about how her ex would rake in something like $20k a month from his tiktok channel. I think kids just caught on that you can be dumb as a brick, morally a piece of shit, and remarkably untalented, but if you get lucky and build a following online you’ll realize success that just wasn’t available before the modern internet era

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      Not to sounds pessimistic… But I bet it’s BS. Same way all these women make money on only fans?

      Fake it till you make it.

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    That’s not a gen Z thing. It’s just that Millennial and Gen X didn’t have that really as a possibility if they weren’t born rich. Now that conservative capitalists are taking power in a time where the majority of households are lower class. So, they’re pushing that narrative again so that people won’t try to bring back the middle class with rich people’s money and instead compete with each other for what little they have.

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    More than half will probably never get to mortgage a house, let alone own it one day or have enough for retirement. Delulu babies.