No, this can’t be it, the kids are miserable just because of social media! All we need to do is ban social media and problem solved!
The old promise of entry-level work, where you find a position, learn the ropes, and make your way up, was already fading. Gen Xers and millennials can tell you that. But AI is quickening the unraveling, disrupting how young people find jobs—if they find jobs—and also what they confront when they get there. Gen Z is squinting into a fog, unsure of what’s coming, yet certain that disembodied decision-makers will have a say in it.
It couldn’t be that feeling like you have no future makes you depressed and unhappy!
There is an idea in Capitalism called “surplus labor”. It’s not controversial, economists from Marx to Freedman acknowledge it. What it means is that a capitalist labor market must have a pool of “unused” labor. Capitalism isn’t able, and it wouldn’t be desirable to simply employ everyone who wants to work. The same way capitalism needs some businesses to fail, it also needs some people to be poor.
Zoomers are not the “first” to be surplussed, the new part is it’s happening to people who imagine themselves to be in the middle class.
You guys have a middle class?
“imagine themselves” was the important bit
Not anymore
Capitalism remains a problem.
I don’t think worker owner businesses would be so rabidly eager to do this AI shit. It’s ghouls and anonymous shareholders. People who don’t even work on the stuff being made.
Worker owned co-ops are definitely less prone to this kind of nonsense.
If by worker owner businesses you mean petit bourgeoisie, then that’s not correct. They have been doing this too
No, I meant one where the business is owned by all the workers, not one where the owner also does some work.
All the workers in the company, or all the workers, period?
Internal democracy within entities that still have the same rapacious, anti-social incentives against broader society as traditional businesses won’t get you far. At best it might slow down the process of turning those within into faithful heralds of the algorithm of capital.
I think it would be better than the traditional tyranny of capitalism. Workers within one organization are less likely to monitor their own bathroom breaks or set insane metrics like “ai tokens used”
There might still be some problems where like the sales people and the software developers don’t understand each other, but that’s a problem now.
Yeah that sounds like a worker cooperative (co-op).
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at its core all social media proved is that human beings are easily swayed and are uncapable or, even worst, unwilling to interact in a civil manner.
The idea that human nature is rotten and cannot change is a core belief in Christianity, capitalism, and conservatism in general. It’s one of the oldest and most contentious political and philosophical debates. It’s OK to take the misanthrope position, but you shouldn’t speak about your opinion like it’s settled and obvious fact.
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Fuck civility
your posts in this thread were so masturbatory that I deleted them all before we got even more jizz on the carpet
Congrats on nuking half the thread.
oh were you using that half?
I would’ve liked the option to do so. Just ban people if they’re annoying but keep the comments up.
“lounge carpet smelling like piss” is not a thing many people want in their lounges
But what about the way abnegating our duty to smell piss infringes upon the other guy’s right to piss freely?
they can go piss themselves! over there somewhere. that isn’t here.
that’s great thanks
Yeah this is stupid because if you actually believe this than leave, what are you doing here?
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Being the contrarian; someone needs to play the part.
the worst part of social media is you
If you’re a contrarian just because “someone needs to play the part”, ergo society expects someone to be a contrarian, aren’t you actually a conformist? #makesyouthink
I am not interested in anecdotes.
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I can absolutely reject your anecdotes and I do.
And this has to do with the posted article how?
> there are already plenty of example cases where forcing the reduction of the use of social media improved the overall mental well being of children and adolescents
[citation needed]
There is so credible established body of research that determines any casual relationship between social media use and wellbeing.
Correlations? Sure tons of studies showing those arguably maybe.
Proof of causation?
Nope, there is none, they have attached theirself to a story/narrative that is more seductive than the truth.
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Ah, vibes, I see
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They say on social media.
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They say on social media.
I’m starting to think I found an exposed nerve.
Could you both please not be embarrassing?
Also what does anything of this have to do with the article?
It’s called “irony”.
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@supersquirrel wow, it feels like a distopic cyberpunk novel/movie from the 80s.
