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finallyfalling said:
The future does scare me a bit :(. Can someone give me something we should be optimistic about?
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I don't get why anyone should be afraid of the future. Every single year, people have been dooming about shit getting bad and it being "over" but everyone still makes it out to the next year, and then the next year, and the next year...

Being scared of the future is retarded when everyone has survived over and over again. Who's to say that we aren't gonna continue surviving? There's no reason we wont.
 
I got out of college right when AI was starting to take off. Parts of my work term report (no one reads these) was written by GPT-2 powered AI dungeon. Back then you could only get a sentence or two at a time and you risked the AI getting stuck in an incoherent loop.

Some amount of years later... I'm a zoomer who actually managed to leave the house and get married. My wife and I have bullshit jobs that pay good enough money and require little to no work to get done. So much employment these days, especially office work, demands you have a good education but ends up being "can you change this 1 line in this 1 file". I did nothing for a year and my manager was impressed by my performance and gave me a well deserved promotion.

To me, students using AI to write bullshit assignments is trickling downstream from careers being bullshit jobs. I have to actively seek out challenging intellectual things to do to keep myself from getting dumber. The world demands nothing from us, hard work doesn't pay, and the only way to buy a house is to have rich parents.
 
finallyfalling said:
The future does scare me a bit :(. Can someone give me something we should be optimistic about?
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As my great uncle says "You'll be fine. There are terrible years and there are good years." Dooming gets more engagement than being optimistic about the world. Some things will get better, some things will get worse. What I learned was not to be too optimistic, and not to be too pessimistic. 2008 housing crash, and 2020's lockdowns were really bad years though. Even though I was too young to notice the former, I could tell there was something wrong with how tense many were.
Nagato Kai Ni Surigao said:
I got out of college right when AI was starting to take off. Parts of my work term report (no one reads these) was written by GPT-2 powered AI dungeon. Back then you could only get a sentence or two at a time and you risked the AI getting stuck in an incoherent loop.

Some amount of years later... I'm a zoomer who actually managed to leave the house and get married. My wife and I have bullshit jobs that pay good enough money and require little to no work to get done. So much employment these days, especially office work, demands you have a good education but ends up being "can you change this 1 line in this 1 file". I did nothing for a year and my manager was impressed by my performance and gave me a well deserved promotion.

To me, students using AI to write bullshit assignments is trickling downstream from careers being bullshit jobs. I have to actively seek out challenging intellectual things to do to keep myself from getting dumber. The world demands nothing from us, hard work doesn't pay, and the only way to buy a house is to have rich parents.
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Ai dungeon my beloved. I remember those days. I work public sector at the state level, and a good portion of these jobs are bullshit. Just as many of the "electives" I had to take were bullshit. The amount of bureaucratic bloat surprises me. Many days are just me waiting to do something, and it gets old, but I enjoy the benefits. It does drive me mad sometimes, so I seek out challenging things like you do. For the housing, I guess that's where I fall under with rich father and great uncle. I feel really bad for those who are stuck.
 
Made In Lovely Kin said:
As my great uncle says "You'll be fine. There are terrible years and there are good years." Dooming gets more engagement than being optimistic about the world. Some things will get better, some things will get worse. What I learned was not to be too optimistic, and not to be too pessimistic. 2008 housing crash, and 2020's lockdowns were really bad years though. Even though I was too young to notice the former, I could tell there was something wrong with how tense many were.
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I was a child during 08. I was too young to understand what was happening but with how everything was in my family I could tell something was seriously wrong. From that point forward in my childhood and tween years I thought we were perpetually stuck in a recession. In a way I was right since many things in my area didn't at all recover to what it once was. An overall sense of pessimism towards the future makes sense for the youngins because it doesn't feel like anything has improved, just barely break even on recovering what was lost just for everything to fall apart again.

Speaking of I've seen variations of this posted in several places
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To me this feels like people yearning for some degree of stable employment that pays more than minimum. I've run into a bunch of people from my highschool days and the vast majority of them regardless if they fell for the college scam or not are stuck in retail or equivalent low pay employment. The only thing that separates me from them in that department is that I got lucky from a line of things gone wrong in just the right way. The stable fake matrix world is appealing to some now
 
WickyWickyWoW said:
I was a child during 08. I was too young to understand what was happening but with how everything was in my family I could tell something was seriously wrong. From that point forward in my childhood and tween years I thought we were perpetually stuck in a recession. In a way I was right since many things in my area didn't at all recover to what it once was. An overall sense of pessimism towards the future makes sense for the youngins because it doesn't feel like anything has improved, just barely break even on recovering what was lost just for everything to fall apart again.
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My family wasn't affected at all by it, but I noticed some tension, and how other families were acting. Some kids and their families I knew moved out and never came back. Didn't learn until a long time later that they were foreclosed upon. Things were also confusing when a new neighborhood was being built and suddenly froze for the longest time, I didn't understand how a neighborhood could be so empty with finished houses, and half-finished homes. Many of those workers got laid off too, and they left too, got hooked on drugs and/or, dealt with shitty pays. Knew something was really wrong when many of my classmates at my private school didn't show up as their parents lost money, or were suddenly moving out too.

Finally found out people were losing their homes and jobs. I believe divorces also skyrocketed during that period, as some kids were "moving in with grandma."
 
finallyfalling said:
The future does scare me a bit :(. Can someone give me something we should be optimistic about?
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I’m gonna be very blunt here, it’s not getting any better and it’s gonna get worse. Unless a solar flare hits or a mass power outage or some other miracle from the divine. A lot of zoomers and millennials were born at the wrong place at the wrong time unfortunately.

How the hell are you even supposed to have hope when the job market is so bad, jobs disappear or get offshored by the year, and straight up evil keeps on winning. I know it’s not a new thing but it still hurts the soul.

And no we’re not gonna get UBI, or a socialist utopia,. Hoping and praying the birthrates continue to drop because why would you wanna put a kid through clownworld? Why the fuck would I wanna have a kid and it ending up working in a sweatshop? Or it live in poverty or new age tech-feudalism.
 
𖦹Junkpop𖦹 said:
And no we’re not gonna get UBI, or a socialist utopia,. Hoping and praying the birthrates continue to drop because why would you wanna put a kid through clownworld? Why the fuck would I wanna have a kid and it ending up working in a sweatshop? Or it live in poverty or new age tech-feudalism.
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Birthrate decline will be a very important way our problems get solved. The population needs to be a quarter of what it currently is at most, and there needs to be fewer cities and more natural areas. I'd even propose steps towards healthier standards of living for everyone: all organic food, no restaurants, standalone houses for everyone, subsidized healthcare, and research (or otherwise learning-intensive, non-repetitive) jobs for everyone. It's important we work now so that in the aftermath of WWIII (which has already started, by the way), we can uproot the old system and create a better one.
 
𖦹Junkpop𖦹 said:
And no we’re not gonna get UBI, or a socialist utopia,. Hoping and praying the birthrates continue to drop because why would you wanna put a kid through clownworld? Why the fuck would I wanna have a kid and it ending up working in a sweatshop? Or it live in poverty or new age tech-feudalism.
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Because the only thing you can rely on in this world is family. Make people that you and yours can rely on.
 
Space Police said:
Birthrate decline will be a very important way our problems get solved. The population needs to be a quarter of what it currently is at most, and there needs to be fewer cities and more natural areas. I'd even propose steps towards healthier standards of living for everyone: all organic food, no restaurants, standalone houses for everyone, subsidized healthcare, and research (or otherwise learning-intensive, non-repetitive) jobs for everyone. It's important we work now so that in the aftermath of WWIII (which has already started, by the way), we can uproot the old system and create a better one.
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Yeah sorry to break it to you but the only declining birth rates are those of developed western countries and countries like Japan and South Korea, meanwhile you have rampant birth rates among niggers in Africa and arabs in the Middle East. Celebrating declining birth rates as they are now is fucking retarded, unless you want to be overrun by shitskins.
 
whatsupwthat said:
Yeah sorry to break it to you but the only declining birth rates are those of developed western countries and countries like Japan and South Korea, meanwhile you have rampant birth rates among niggers in Africa and arabs in the Middle East. Celebrating declining birth rates as they are now is fucking retarded, unless you want to be overrun by shitskins.
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Most African and Middle Eastern birthrates are low. Birthrates are declining across the board, and that's good.
 
Dawg I was down by the Best Buy yesterday and I saw something amazing.
Imagine a typical nerdy, skinny, White, permed Zoomer. Now imagine that this dude is like five seconds away from falling into conniptions because his gal, who I am not lying looked like if Gogo Tomago from Big Hero 6 was a punk in a leather and chain skirt with those boots they like, pulled him in and kissed his cheek.
My man was in a state, go him there’s hope out there me boys.
 
𖦹Junkpop𖦹 said:
I’m gonna be very blunt here, it’s not getting any better and it’s gonna get worse. Unless a solar flare hits or a mass power outage or some other miracle from the divine. A lot of zoomers and millennials were born at the wrong place at the wrong time unfortunately.

How the hell are you even supposed to have hope when the job market is so bad, jobs disappear or get offshored by the year, and straight up evil keeps on winning. I know it’s not a new thing but it still hurts the soul.

And no we’re not gonna get UBI, or a socialist utopia,. Hoping and praying the birthrates continue to drop because why would you wanna put a kid through clownworld? Why the fuck would I wanna have a kid and it ending up working in a sweatshop? Or it live in poverty or new age tech-feudalism.
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The last hundred or so years have been great compared to the rest of civilisation. Obviously a higher standard of living, more egalitarian, stable. I thought things would keep getting better and better but maybe it was a temporary blip, and we're just reverting to the norm. Who knows though we can't predict the future, I'm just gonna hope for the best. I don't think we're doomed yet.
 
I leave uni in less than four months and I fear I’ll be unemployed and have to live with my mom for ever*sigh*(she’s a Bible basher)
 
Well got laid off of my contract job after only a week, been applying to jobs for about 6 months since near end of college. How the hell am I supposed to get a job that isn't blind firing on linkedin, might have to rope at this rate.
 
Comp0site Specter said:
Well got laid off of my contract job after only a week, been applying to jobs for about 6 months since near end of college. How the hell am I supposed to get a job that isn't blind firing on linkedin, might have to rope at this rate.
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You won't beat the resume spam because all of India does it (and your resume is lost in a sea of literal shit)

Unironically the only way is through connections and hitting the pavement.
 
Comp0site Specter said:
Well got laid off of my contract job after only a week, been applying to jobs for about 6 months since near end of college. How the hell am I supposed to get a job that isn't blind firing on linkedin, might have to rope at this rate.
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What a close friend of mine did to get the same job I do was he exploited the keywords. This may or may not work, but he noticed how the public sector in my state will throw out resumes and applications if it didn't have certain keywords. Don't know he exactly told what mattered or not, but he actually faked his way in by inserting those words and they didn't look over his application, despite having none of what the application asked for. He got in anyways lol.
Lobster Cult High Priest said:
You won't beat the resume spam because all of India does it (and your resume is lost in a sea of literal shit)
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You cannot hate jeets enough.
 
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