Some obnoxious ghoul-to-ghoul communication on one of the porkrags. The article looks at a study showing how young people have been drained of their hope for the future by capitalism and concludes:

After reading all that, you might be feeling a bit sad yourself. But don‘t worry: Bernstein reckons this is, broadly, good for capitalism. Its analysts see positives across most categories, such as: greater restaurant spend (as young people give up on cooking), more luxury goods spending (as young people try to fill the empty voids inside their souls), and more vaping (ditto).

Hooray for the soul-vitiating nihilism at the bus of history’s last stop!

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well as long as the misery is good for capitalism that’s fine by me.

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Sad nerd solidarity

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I don’t see anything wrong with this

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I’ll have you know some old people are sad nerds too!

Also jesus christ that quote’s actually in the article, how does someone write this for the financial times and not shoot up the office the next day?

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I saw today some silly pop sci article about a study (maybe the same one idk) showing that young people have uphended human, no primate nature by being so sad. You see, for millions of trillions of years of monkey-kind, mid life crises were normal. Duh. But now for the first time in ever, as the study shows, young people are as sad as middle age people

The reason you ask? Cell phones

https://www.iflscience.com/young-people-are-now-so-unhappy-that-theyve-changed-a-fundamental-pattern-of-life-75117

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It’s curious to me how much American mass media is built on the assumption that a very early-mid 20th century status quo would last forever. Kind of a recurring problem, I notice.

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