Holy shit and I thought millennials and Gen X had it bad with how corporate our toys were.

I hate to be that person that’s like “omg what kids like these days is poisoning them!” Especially because I come from the Mortal Kombat generation, but between Mr Beast, social media and shit like Roblox turning every hobby into a hussle I have to wonder what effect this will have on them.

Capitalism preying on kids was bad enough when I was a kid in the 90s and 00s (and from what I’ve seen from 80s cartoons, the generation before mine was pretty bad too), but it’s a whole other level now.

Collapse is hitting hard and is only going to get worse though, so it is possible they’ll go left.

  • Gorb [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    For some reason I have a big worry that younger generations are more likely to move towards fascism due to the fact that holding cognitive dissonance in the face of your own class interests is possible if propagandised. And any kid signing up to tiktok or youtube is going to be sandblasted with right wing propaganda from day one.

    If there’s any teachers here they would probably know best.

    Usually kids don’t really get a real ideology until they enter the workforce but its also possible to see someone hate their own job and blame a minority for it.