Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Meet the women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism and burnout

Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Meet the women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism and burnout

  • stoly@lemmy.world
    23·
    8 months ago

    Speaking as a child of the late 1970s, this was my experience. We had nobody to look at or talk with this about, it was just Boomers being Boomers and pretending that 1995 was no different than 1975. They really just expected us to hustle and get ahead, when THEY WERE THE ONLY GENERATION IN HISTORY THAT THIS WORKED FOR. It took the 2000 and 2008 crashes before people could actually speak about it.

    Make no mistake: the world is now a better place BECAUSE people are talking about this.

    • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
      12·
      8 months ago

      They didn’t even hustle. Boomers grew up in basically the only industrialized country that hadn’t been bombed to fuck. Good jobs fell into their laps.

    • stringere@leminal.space
      2·
      8 months ago

      Thank you for giving voice to years of frustration from feeling like I was screaming into the void.

      Not sure where you grew up but the suburban midwest was/is a nightmare for thinking, rational, empathetic humans.

      • stoly@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Suburban south Puget Sound. It’s filled with angry alcoholics who never had a life or a real chance and just vote Republican.

        I now am in a nice apartment in one of them there anarchic cities of whatever they were called during Lockdown, working for a university and living a life that my family hates.

        • stringere@leminal.space
          2·
          8 months ago

          I miss Seattle. For 9 years I finally got to feel sane.

          Moved back to the midwest for good reasons but believe me we’re getting back out as soon as we can.

          You really described it well:

          t’s filled with angry alcoholics who never had a life or a real chance and just vote Republican.

          And no amount of reason or logic will get them to believe they’re being duped.

          • stoly@lemmy.world
            1·
            8 months ago

            And no amount of reason or logic will get them to believe they’re being duped.

            Worse: they have been trained to act in their own disinterest, dressing it up in terms like “personal responsibility”. They are basically the monkeys dancing by the organ grinder.