• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I mean I graduated high school in 2014 and it was absolutely challenging to find a job, buy a house, afford groceries, etc. So challenging, in fact, that I only managed one of those things. Like that’s why I developed anxiety, because my brain was (rightly!) occupied with the thought that I would never be able to get a job and be independent in the contemporary economy, which was completely correct.

    Things are worse now for sure but shit was bad back then too.

  • Alice@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Y’all were buying houses in 2014?? I thought we were well and truly fucked by that point.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Challenges in 2034:

    • Survive infancy with no medical care except the LLM your assigned insurance conglomerate provides. (Which is only able to prescribe Ozempic and anxiolytics.
    • Hack the pre-installed digitized Elon Musk consciousness out of your mandatory XTesLink™ Not-An-Enslavement-Device™ brain implant without letting him find out beforehand lest he trigger the built-in “re-education” module.
    • Escape the coal mine without exceeding your quota of oxygen, triggering the alarm.
    • Don’t die of radiation poisoning. Or Sars-CoV-2029. Or high-velocity lead poisonin due to looking “ethnic” in the vicinity of a Paw Patrol™ robotic police unit.
    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      You forgot the “Not get burned at the stake as a heretic for not having at least one child by the age of 16”!