Infinite scroll is suited for current events putting negative pressures against content creation. Content creation became an economy. Commoditization of content sucked the life out of it all.
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Those who take issue with loss of profits without ads must take it up with big tech. They've have literal trillions of dollars from dominating the ad industry. They have your money. Nobody else.
Those were dictators too.
Fight fire with fire. Assume their gender. 🙂
They have old/orphaned dependencies on their machine. It's hanging on a by thread. They have no idea the packages have disappeared years ago. The house of cards is a bit flip away from collapsing.
It's the tech oligarchs. They're doing their own gilded age. Their empires exist in the tech domain. Mostly IT services. They're going after the whole pie. They want the entirety of American industry.
What they have in mind exactly is anyone's guess. We're not going back to the times of railroad or oil barons. We're not necessarily going back steel and auto manufacturing. The future is in things like robotics, renewable energy, semiconductors, or whatever the future holds.
I think crashing the economy just to buy stock is old news too. The saying has become rather mindlessly echoed. They have relatively little to gain from this. The rich hold 90% of stocks. There's little to extract from the remaining 10%. Plus I think people have believed too much in the idea that stocks are a shell game. It's not as much as people think. The markets are still based on tangibles meaning actual industry. That is what the oligarchs are after. What's better than owning stock in the industry is owning the industry itself. Complete total monopolies just like the gilded age and just like they've monopolized IT services sector.
The chronically online incels look for things to mass report. It's part of their ongoing campaign to shove the Overton Window far right.
Reddits content moderation are cubicle farm employees that barely look at content; nevermind actual context or intent. They're clearing tickets to make quota. Right wingers exploit this to control discourse.
You can try doing it yourself. Look for frivolous things to report as offensive. You can get quite a bit of things removed.
They fell in love with their own reflection. All they can hear is their own words 'Freedom!' echoing in their ears. It's a modern day tale of Narcissus.
It's not that arbitrary. Gen-X are the first generation of boomer children. Millennials are the second generation of boomer children who grew up with the internet. These are real events.
People find it easy to fit boomers into a tidy box. Ask the boomers born on the cusp of boomer and gen-x. It's arbitrary bullshit too. It's not like baby boomers all came from the boomer factory and then one day they decided, 'that's it the boomer factory's closed'.
It feels like a warped in to another dimension. Did everyone start using only 5 years ago?
They want to virtue signal trivial social issues to avoid admitting they're just plain conservative.
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How do you know it will? Stagnation is a thing in the US stock market as much as 'line go up' is a thing.
If anything millennials have had it better than anyone else. If your brain hasn't hemorrhaged from reading that sentence then consider that what you are saying is only being said because millennials have seen the one of most incredible bull runs ever.
If you're 35 years old that means you started your big boy career job about 15 years ago. In other words your investment portfolio if you were one of the individuals smart enough to begin diligently investing from the start. Look at the SP500 15 years ago. It was the bottom of the recession. The SP500 has gone in a straight line up from about 700 to 6000. So only a modest what like 800% gain. Of course it's easy to say 'cheap stock' every time a big drop happens.
Now look at the 15 year period after the Dotcom bust. Now try the 1970s through the better part of the 1980s. Long periods of stagnation. Sideways moving stock market.
People need to be ready to stomach effectively zero gains until age 50 as much as you can tell them the SP500 could hit 12000 in the same period. There's no guarantees unless your frame of reference is only the past 15 years. Then of course it is easy to say line always go up.