We got a new employee last monday and I'm the one that did most of his training. He's 28 years old and has a degree in business administration. For those of you who don't know, I work in fast food. Also he's not just a regular employee, he's only part time. He has another part time job at a pizza place. He got his degree 6 years ago and never got to use it. The closest he came was a basic office job which he lost after 6 months due to downsizing. I have his number and we text each other. He basically gave me a rundown of his whole educational and working career. He has 40k in student loan debt. Still lives with his parents. I asked him what he's going to do for healthcare and he said his goal is to get full time at one of his jobs so he can get it. He then also added "I just gotta keep working hard, the world doesn't owe me anything". I asked him if he was actively looking for a job that would actually utilize his degree. He said he gave up on that after years of looking, and said he hoped maybe one day he could get a management position at one of his jobs. ....28 years old, a business degree, 40k in student loan debt, with a goal to "work hard" so he can get full time hours...and a dream of MAYBE one day becoming an assistant manager at a fast food joint.
The guy isn't even a fuck up in any way that I can tell. At least average intelligence, pretty normal socially, especially for a zoomer, learns fast, works hard, etc. He's also 6'0 MTN if it matters. At least with a guy like me its understandable that I'm working in fast food. I'm an ugly sub4 ogre with a low IQ. But seeing a guy like him in this situation (technically worse since he's only part time, no benefits, and still lives with parents) is just sad. And the fact that he just accepts it and seems fine with it is even sadder.
But I look at him as kind of a sign of the times and a sign of how gen z, particularly gen z males, are doing and what their general outlook/attitude on life is. I don't even think he's an extreme outlier either. As I noted in my nuclear economypill thread, half of all uber drivers have a degree.
In general, one pattern I have noticed with gen z males is that they have extremely low standards when it comes to literally everything. They're fine with living with their parents past the age of 25. They know they'll never own a home, and they've fully accepted it. They're fine with working shitty low paying jobs, even if they have a degree. They're fine with having no close real life friends and living their social life entirely online. They're fine with dating way down in looks and when their gf demands an open relationship, they're fine with it. And that's actually aspirational for a lot of gen z males since so many are incel. For those, they're fine with having parasocial relationships with women on onlyfans. I'm sure they know they're talking to a man from kolkata when they pay for the highest tier subscription that involves talking with them online, but they'll suspend their disbelief. They're fine with hollywood, netflix, and anime slop that just recycle the same character archetypes, storylines and tropes that have been run into the ground for decades while doing the faggy post-ironic 4th wall breaking nod to the audience where the writers acknowledge they wrote something cliche because they couldn't come up with anything original, so they act like they're proud that the story "dOeDn'T tAkE iTsElF sEriOusLy". They're fine spending hours scrolling through tiktok, watching the same skits, same talking points, same brainrot sound effects played over and over ("FAAAAAHH FAAAAAH FAAAAAAH! BRUH FAAAAH! FAAAAAAH *vine boom* FAAAAAAH!) with the comments section having the same jokes, copied and pasted. They're fine with having no privacy on the internet. They're fine with increasing censorship. They just change their entire language to avoid using words you can't say on social media, like saying "unalived" which zoomers are now saying in real life...unironically.
You could argue that its pragmatic to simply accept things for what they are, and you would probably be right. But personally, there's something unsettling about an entire generation of men being hypercompetitive for diminishing rewards and stoically accepting increasingly dystopian circumstances, even if you want to argue its simply a rational adaptation.
It reminds me of this high IQ post on /pol/ from 13 years ago:
The guy isn't even a fuck up in any way that I can tell. At least average intelligence, pretty normal socially, especially for a zoomer, learns fast, works hard, etc. He's also 6'0 MTN if it matters. At least with a guy like me its understandable that I'm working in fast food. I'm an ugly sub4 ogre with a low IQ. But seeing a guy like him in this situation (technically worse since he's only part time, no benefits, and still lives with parents) is just sad. And the fact that he just accepts it and seems fine with it is even sadder.
But I look at him as kind of a sign of the times and a sign of how gen z, particularly gen z males, are doing and what their general outlook/attitude on life is. I don't even think he's an extreme outlier either. As I noted in my nuclear economypill thread, half of all uber drivers have a degree.
In general, one pattern I have noticed with gen z males is that they have extremely low standards when it comes to literally everything. They're fine with living with their parents past the age of 25. They know they'll never own a home, and they've fully accepted it. They're fine with working shitty low paying jobs, even if they have a degree. They're fine with having no close real life friends and living their social life entirely online. They're fine with dating way down in looks and when their gf demands an open relationship, they're fine with it. And that's actually aspirational for a lot of gen z males since so many are incel. For those, they're fine with having parasocial relationships with women on onlyfans. I'm sure they know they're talking to a man from kolkata when they pay for the highest tier subscription that involves talking with them online, but they'll suspend their disbelief. They're fine with hollywood, netflix, and anime slop that just recycle the same character archetypes, storylines and tropes that have been run into the ground for decades while doing the faggy post-ironic 4th wall breaking nod to the audience where the writers acknowledge they wrote something cliche because they couldn't come up with anything original, so they act like they're proud that the story "dOeDn'T tAkE iTsElF sEriOusLy". They're fine spending hours scrolling through tiktok, watching the same skits, same talking points, same brainrot sound effects played over and over ("FAAAAAHH FAAAAAH FAAAAAAH! BRUH FAAAAH! FAAAAAAH *vine boom* FAAAAAAH!) with the comments section having the same jokes, copied and pasted. They're fine with having no privacy on the internet. They're fine with increasing censorship. They just change their entire language to avoid using words you can't say on social media, like saying "unalived" which zoomers are now saying in real life...unironically.
You could argue that its pragmatic to simply accept things for what they are, and you would probably be right. But personally, there's something unsettling about an entire generation of men being hypercompetitive for diminishing rewards and stoically accepting increasingly dystopian circumstances, even if you want to argue its simply a rational adaptation.
It reminds me of this high IQ post on /pol/ from 13 years ago:
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He could had learned a trade or started working fast food early on and saved up. But i personally dont see anything wrong with working fast food or why people look down upon it, the problem with these jobs is the pay.
