Welp the standard iPhones are gonna be like $800, the Pros $1200+, the Fold is just gonna be $3000, and the MacBook Ultra will start above $4000 now
This all started because some guy lied about his ability to pay for all that RAM he intended to hog btw
I'm part of Gen Z and slightly younger than him but he's completely right, because the way our generation thinks goes like this:
If you follow the system and work "hard" at your 9-5, you aren't rewarded. There is no future in it, because you are essentially a slave for the people at the top and the backbone of the system. You pay 35-50% in taxes and have 0 stake in society.
Buying a house or apartment was every single generation's number 1 priority. Now? You're priced out of the housing market entirely, unless you want to become a slave to a bank for the rest of your life.
Every day you're being destroyed by inflation while banks print money out of thin air. The cost of living is simply ridiculous, and you cannot save your way to a future, because the more money you hold in your bank, the less purchasing power you have over time.
The "save money" approach that Boomers love to preach because they are so disconnected from reality, worked for previous generations because the times were completely different. This whole "eat less at a restaurant" is outdated bullshit.
Even if you start your own company, the chances are high that you're already being crushed by the competition, or you get wrecked by taxes and imaginary 'laws' designed to prevent you from creating any wealth. Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Intel and Apple have essentially monopolized the entire world.
Your average person doesn't think "how do I start a business?", they think "how do I put money into their stock or this crypto?" because the only way to multiply your money is to join the winning team rather than try to build one. There are exceptions of course; plenty of people still succeed doing their own thing, but I'm talking about the average person here.
Bottom line is, capitalism has gotten out of control. I won't even get to market manipulation, healthcare scandals, DEI, mass illegal immigration and using wars to launder money, then having the public to pay the price while the rich get richer.
So you're probably wondering, what does my generation do?
> Some slave themselves to the banks by following the old system which has priced them out from living, completely dead on the inside, hating every day of their lives and don't know any better.
> Some start their own businesses and look for any avenue outside the system (typically online), because the system caps you in the real world based on how far you can scale.
> Some check out entirely, they work a basic job but spend every paycheck down to zero; travel, buy whatever they want, go outside, and enjoy life as much as possible because there is no future worth saving for.
The one thing all three of these groups have in common is that they all want to see the system burn to the ground because these politicians are so good at talking, yet nothing ever gets done. They constantly abuse people as much as they can. It used to work for a while, but not anymore, which is why people around the world have lost faith in every single government.
Best advice I can give anybody is to avoid governments as much as possible. Avoid putting yourself in debt. Avoid their propaganda. Operate outside of the system by starting your own thing, the internet is your best friend here, understand that most 'rules' aren't real, and stay away from anything they tell you is 'good' for you.
The number 1 thing pisses me off today is how every company realized they can still technically operate at the bare minimum if they run a skeleton crew for everything. So now every service sucks, both for the workers and the customers, and we can't do anything.
Tim Cook equates incoming price increases to $AAPL as a disaster, calling it a “100 year flood event” 👀
Whaaaat is coming?
$MSFT says Surface Pro price to increase +50%
Samsung phones increasing +20%
This is coming to every company that got drunk on the AI hype and gave unlimited access to tokens for their employees
Lot of them crunching the numbers and now just realizing how expensive tokens actually are
Mark Zuckerberg is trying to restart Meta’s hacker culture after 8,000 layoffs but employees are pushing back.
In an internal memo sent to staff on Friday, Zuckerberg tried to boost morale, but it seemed like a pretty clear misread of the moment. He promised a companywide AI hackathon in July, only for employees to push back hard because they were clearly not interested.
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finance. yahoo. com/technology/ai/articles/mark-zuckerberg-orders-employees-start-123539264.html
anyone who has ever built anything can tell you that theres a point in the development cycle where the sunk costs become too great, and the entire org chart starts walking on eggshells around an exec who is too tunneled in to realize his product sucks