They gaslit Millennials for years when this started. Said we were lazy and preferred our iPhones and Avocado toast as opposed to working. In reality, they shipped jobs overseas, made us go in debt to go to school, stopped paying taxes, and refused to increase wages.
If your parents made 40k in the 1990s, you’d need to make 170k to have the same lifestyle in 2026
So 170k is the new 40k
This should absolutely shock you
The absolute funniest part of capitalist ideology is that they somehow managed to convince everyone that “freedom” meant like.…. the freedom to choose between 47 kinds of shampoo, and not like.….. the freedom to quit a job you hatė without losing your health insurance.
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
People who say making college free will actually “decrease the significance of a degree” are accidentally revealing a truth most of us knew: college is prohibitively expensive as a means of class and status maintenance