https://fortune.com/2024/02/09/gen-z-grad-two-degrees-breaks-down-tears-minimum-wage-employers-resume-in-person/

“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.”

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    9 months ago

    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

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        9 months ago

        Like The Hangover but instead of the start of a big night out, every Friday evening could be the start of a week with a surprise decade hidden inside of it.

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      1. Raise people in a deeply hierarchical class system, seeping with racism and hatred for the poor.
      2. Promise them that they will get a ticket to the good life, unlike those lazy [insert slur], if they just work hard and get a degree.
      3. Fuck them over when they get the degree. Give them nothing.
      4. I guess only good stuff happens here. A bunch of desperate people who feel cheated out of the privileges they feel entitled to has never resulted in anything bad.
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        9 months ago

        Hey we didn’t get nothing for the degree. We got debt that follows us to the grave. Thanks Biden!