Nearly half of Gen Z and millennial workers have left a job, or plan to, because of climate concerns
BYOrianna Rosa Royle
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The era of “global boiling” is here, sending shivers down young worker’s spines. But instead of sitting with their anxiety, Gen Z and millennials are trying to save the planet by quitting jobs that aren’t eco-friendly.
Most of these tests to ensure someone is a #millennial seem like things that anyone can figure out, but I don't see any possible way for kids these days to understand the #iPod scroll wheel #interface without seeing someone else use it first.
Two last days in my current job, and it's a procession of goodbyes. I hate goodbyes. What is the professional equivalent of ghosting? #immature#millennial
do you remember when you'd get home from school on a friday and take off the away message on AIM and then go off to reorganize your myspace top 8? them were the days.
it's weird living in a moment when, at that time, i didn't think i'd ever think about those days.
New Instance, New Software #sharkey, New Year, New #introduction (it's kind of long, sorry, not sorry) :neofox_pleading: I'm going to follow this post with a thread "living" top 10 lists that change over time...
The boring bio stuff first: I'm an elder #millennial (currently late 30s) #transgender#woman living in the #Chicago Metro Area in the #UnitedStates. I'm just your boring average nerdy white girl with all the pumpkin spice drinks that go with that. :neofox:
What do I talk about? Usually, my trans life or politics or sci-fi or just random shit. I do a lot of responses to people and sometimes even complain about work. :neofox_reach:
Now the thing I'm actually most passionate about: I'm writing a #ScienceFiction#Political thriller #SpaceOpera. The thing that makes it special (in my mind) is that the story changes and evolves based on real life events... I started writing it in 2004, I'm finally getting it out... I've tried to make it various different things over time it's ended out coming out as a blog: https://lastcontact.space :neofox_hyper:
Hobbies: I enjoy watching #anime, #movies, #television, basically consuming anything I can get my hands on that catches me. I'm an avid player and #GameMaster of #DungeonsAndDragons. I enjoy going to see shows, plays etc. I used to be an outdoorsy type of person, but I think I'm starting to outgrow that bit. :neofox_happy:
Career: My day job is as a technical program manager for a major global cloud services provider. I almost went into software engineering, but I've determined that wasn't for me and went into hardware repair instead. Now, I manage policy, procedure, and the tooling for people in the datacenter who do the repairs of equipment. I've worked way too much in 2023 and hoping to find a better balance in 2024. :neofox_scream:
Politics: Since I talk about them a bit, I should put my politics out there. I spent some time attached to all political belief systems in the US -- When I was young I said thing that were super far lefty. However I spent some time in the far right. They had their tendrils in me when I was convinced that I was a cis-het-dude. Now, I consider myself independent, but most of my beliefs come from the very left side of the scale (just like when I was a kid). :neofox_0_0:
Home Life: I have a pup and a partner that I talk about from time to time. Not much other family connected right now, but maybe I'll reunite with some of them in 2024. Also, I'm very of sad because we know we're nearing the end of life for our puppy; she's dealing with a lot of pain after hurting her back in 2022. :neofox_floof_sad_reach:
China uses Chinese app TikTok (Douyin) to influence young voters in Taiwan's elections. "Videos shared on the platform by China aim to sow distrust in Taiwan's government and military."
There's a cheat-code in US #antitrustm it's been increasingly used since the #Reagan administration, when the "#ConsumerWelfare" theory ("#monopolies are fine, so long as the lower prices") shoved aside the long-established idea that antitrust law existed to prevent monopolies from forming at all.
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Well, Uber has doubled the price of a ride and halved the wages of its drivers (not that consumer welfare theorists care about workers' wages - they care about consumer welfare, not worker welfare). And not just Uber: companies that captured whole markets have jacked up prices and lowered quality across the board, a Great Enshittening whose playbook has been dubbed "#VenturePredation":
The thing is, any feed or search result is "algorithmic." "Just show me the things posted by people I follow in reverse-chronological order" is an algorithm. "Just show me products that have this SKU" is an algorithm. "Alphabetical sort" is an algorithm. "Random sort" is an algorithm.
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Second, there's just so many possible results that it takes a lot of work to sift through the probably-adequate stuff at the top of the listings and get to the actually-good stuff down below.
Amazon spent decades subsidizing its sellers' goods - an illegal practice known as "predatory pricing" that enforcers have increasingly turned a blind eye to since the Reagan administration. This has left it with few competitors:
Think of everything that makes you miserable as being caught between two opposing, irresistible, irrefutable truths:
"Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops" (#SteinsLaw)
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" (Keynes)
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That's even more money than Uber torched, seeking to maintain the illusion they will be able to create monopolies in transport and the labor market for driving and recoup the billions the Saudi royal family lent them for the con:
Don't worry: the Saudis are OK! They cashed out at IPO, collecting a tidy profit at the expense of retail investors who assumed that a pile of shit as big as Uber must have a pony under it, somewhere:
"the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it" (#JKGabraith)
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This #VenturePredation let investors - like #PrinceBoneSaw - cash out to suckers, leaving behind a money-losing business that had to invent ever-sweatier accounting tricks and implausible narratives to keep the suckers on the line while they blew town. A bezzle, in other words:
Uber is a true bezzle innovator, coming up with all kinds of fairy tales and sci-fi gimmicks to explain how they would convert their money-loser into a profitable business.
👋🏼 im mo and new here. So far so good with a little bit of help from a friend 💛 I’m a queer, nonbinary, trans-masc person hoping to meet new people. I live with my family in va and I love anything outdoors, at the beach 🏝️, or in the gym 🧗🏼 I’m really into tech, video games, mma/bjj, honestly, anything active. I am excited to meet new folks and expand community. so say hello (or don’t)! #queer#transmasc#newhere#hi#hello#whatsup#millennial#pride#queerparenting#girldad#twomoms
I am old enough to remember when the shitty little external speakers you attached to your desktop PC would announce that you were getting a phone call two seconds before your phone would actually ring.
I’m terrible at social media despite being on it since 2007 lol. I’m trying to find cool people to follow (especially fellow #lgbt#gamers ). How do you make #friends on the internet?
🧵I know I mostly toot about #Ukraine here, but the #SCOTUS has got me annoyed. More than they usually irritate me. People in my generation (elder #millennial), #GenX'ers, and #Boomers, mostly grew up with a court that's legacy was in many ways progressive. As a result, most folks respected & trusted the SCOTUS as an institution, especially when compared to the other branches of #government. #Watergate, #Clinton's #impeachment, & various #bribery & #misconduct scandals in #congress 1/n
It's interesting to realise how much of the millennial experience involves having nostalgic memories of things that originated before you were born, or when you were too young to watch, because of how big of a thing reruns used to be.
There is also what is called #GenMZ. It is a combination of Millennials and GenZ, that is 1981‒2012. “GenMZ” is more commonly used in South Korea than anywhere else.
These guys.... I think I had the address for Zoom memorized before my own.