Millennials really watched everything collapse in 2008, then got handed student debt, got called entitled for wanting a living wage, survived a pandemic in our prime years, and got priced out of life. And y’all wonder why we’re not okay? We’ve been in survival mode for 20 years.
The richest man on earth offered to pay federal workers out of his own pocket and the government said no.
Read that again.
They don’t want us to win, they never did.
it’s 1am and i’m looking at before-and-after photos of seoul removing a highway to build a stream and park and the property values went UP and traffic went DOWN and air quality improved and im sitting here like we have the EVIDENCE we have ALL the evidence and we just don’t care
America got so expensive that leaving the country is starting to sound more rational than staying.
That should terrify people.
When the middle class is comparing rent in Ohio to life in Spain, that is not wanderlust.
That is economic failure.
My iPhone memories today showed me a snapchat picture I had taken of a check totaling $83 for a New York City dinner for 3 in 2018 with the caption “Balling Out” completely unironically. They took everything from us
It’s almost like earth was perfectly created for human beings, literally water falls from the sky and food grows on trees, but somehow we find ourselves trapped in a machine that requires credit scores and a 40 hour work week for existence.
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
The bleakest thing about screens is how they’ve destroyed the concept of pleasure. People don’t dance anymore. They don’t read. They don’t have hobbies. If Big Tech has its way, there will be no more writing fiction or making music. Everyone is entertained and no one is happy.
My brother is a senior designer at Figma. He is insanely cracked. I sent him this image and asked him what it would take to build it today. I will never forget his answer… "We can't, we don't know how to do it."