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[–] trungulox@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

My own personal idea to reduce burnout: democracy.

People never shut up about how we supposedly live in a free democratic society and spend 40+ hours in a fucking facist dictatorship.

Also if you don’t like your boss it should be legally permissible, even encouraged, to be able to hit them in the face once with a tire iron.

Fuck that. Every generation throws a hero up the pop shart.

[–] EverXIII@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah right…

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

GenX here. We plan to work full time until we are dead. We have no retirement savings. Get bent.

if you don't have any savings, that's on you.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 196 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Don't worry, GenZ will eventually get even more burnt out than us. They're just not there yet. We all have it rough.

[–] grober_Unfug@discuss.tchncs.de 116 points 1 week ago

I’m not even sure if this is relevant. What is relevant though: we are all burned out and instead of asking who’s the most burned out we should probably fight the cause, because that’s the same for all generations: capitalism

[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 48 points 1 week ago

hear hear, it's not team sports, it's everyone's fucking life, we all share this place and this time

[–] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago

Instead of comparing our burn outs we should be burning the people holding us captive.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why do you think genz will get more burnt out than us?

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Because everything that has made life worse for millennials, is not fixed, not even a little bit, and is not going to be fixed. It is going to keep getting worse and it is not clear people are even really trying to fix anything anymore because we are, as the article points out, burned out. There is almost nothing on the horizon that has much potential for making anything any better or easier for anybody, and the few things that do have that potential, like AI and automation, are very clearly (to me) going to be misused for exploiting humans in almost every possible way and making life harder not easier for the vast majority of the human population which likely includes everybody commenting here.

GenZ may instead get burned-out literally -- from their homes, as humanity continues to work mindlessly towards a goal of creating enough heat to set the entire planet on fire, but maybe the rising oceans will put some of the fires out. Families and mental health and the fabric of society will continue to fray. Prices will keep rising. The wealth gap will continue expanding. Lawlessness and homelessness will become rampant. Democracy will continue to slide towards corporate tyranny and fascism, and peace begins to make way for conflict and war.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Time plus exponential decline.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The frequency with which once-in-a-generation calamities are occurring.

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fuck, man. I'm at 3.5 and I ain't even 40 yet.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

As a college grad from the dot-com school, I feel ya.

[–] doug@lemmy.today 187 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Ok, but let’s not be divisive among generations over a common enemy.

No war but class war.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Exactly. As a millenial, my goal is to be compassionate for the next generation — not to pull the "when I was your age" card on Gen Z and Alpha.

[–] socsa@piefed.social -3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I mean if gen Z men are a big fascist majority, when does it start being a class war?

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[–] RedSeries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 89 points 1 week ago

As a millennial I give zero fucks about this generational shit with those who come after us. Gen Z and Alpha have the same shit sandwich we do, with their own special horrors we didn't grow up with. We should be working with them to make this better for all of us who come after the Boomers and Gen X.

This headline reads like "kids these days can't get off their phones" as if the Boomers who wrote it aren't sending iPhone gift cards via Facebook messenger to a Nigerian prince.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 36 points 1 week ago

We're not competing. We're all being oppressed by the wealthy. It's time to unify against this shit

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

Agreed. I hate the whole generational divide that keeps being pushed by media outlets. There are so many overlapping generations occurring concurrently, that it is essentially a completely meaningless title.

This comment section gives me hope.

Good job, Lemmings, for recognizing this for what it is.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But which generation whines the most? I'm voting boomers

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Who even cares anymore. They're decrepit now and the real problem has always been the ruling class.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck this whole shitting on the younger generation shit. It's bullshit and everyone knows it.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

I'll admit I am pretty fucking annoyed by how much fash sympathy there is in gen Z. We were so close to actually being able to make a pretty big political swing to the left swing and they kind of fucked it up in the worst way possible.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

The kids aren’t alright—and neither are the millennials.

Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iNbnineUCI

But yeah. This is just a "most burned out generation so far..." thing.

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Give me 10 years they'll catch up.

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[–] gothiccwaifu@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Turns out being part of a "sandwich" generation is not as tasty as the term implies.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a new term to me can you expand please?

[–] gothiccwaifu@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was in the article, it refers to a generation who is burdened with caring for both their parents/grandparents and their children.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Hey that's me and I'm not a melenial z or boomer

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago

That's because they're younger and haven't earned as much burnout yet! They're just entering the burnout market, back in my day I had just as much burnout as they do but now I've been in the burnout market long enough to earn more burnout! They'll catch up soon, it's not unfair it's just how gaining experience works!

(Read above as: boomers and wealth hand waving) :P

[–] lost_tortie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[–] KingBoo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anyone have a non paywalled link?

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