“I was so upset and disappointed in myself because growing up, I was told that if I get an education, if I go to college, then I’ll be successful,” Santos told Business Insider—and she’s not the first Gen Zer to complain about feeling tricked into pursuing further education.
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.”
Nah, the only do stories like this for like art students to reinforce the narrative that it's all lazy millennials who are struggling. Ignoring even the STEM fields are suffering right now, my sister has a degree in mechanical engineering and even she's struggling to find work.
Oh shit, is she an art student? The article is behind an enshitification wall. That just makes the article even more pathetic. Way to shit on someone's hopes and dreams when they don't line up with making oligarchs richer...
My degree is Computer Information Systems and I also get told I should have went for something that was marketable "instead of a liberal arts degree" so the brainworms are real.
We also need a general strike against student loan debt since no one gives a fuck about fixing that bullshit.
E: I didn't see where it said her degree was in but it did say several times that she wanted to become a professional influencer so they are gonna probably just ride that line to dehumanize her.
2015: "lol just learn to code"
2024: "lol just learn to mine coal"
2030: Just learn to revolution
Westerners aren't capable of that, their brainpan is too small
Can they be taught? Millennials are pretty much over with but a few of my zoomer friends are closet leftists and fairly self aware.
I mean, not to be a total doomer cuz I'm actually a tiny bit hopeful on the global scale, but sadly I think the Maoists Third Worldists are right, there isn't a 1st world proletarian and there's no hope of organizing in the imperial core. The treat-brain is too deep at this point.
I didn't know this was a Maoist think but this is sort of where I am at too. We need the Global South to gain class consciousness and cut off the Empire for any real universal proletarian movement to happen.