"Look Timmy, I get you want me to be your ‘mom’ or whatever, but have you considered that my do-nothing job that pays me like 80k a year makes me feel kinda alienated sometimes? I’m the real victim.
Anyway I’ve decided we’re going to join a MLM scheme/cult that I heard about on AOL. So I’m going to be busy, you’ll have to make your own Mac-n-Cheese tonight."
People say this, but as someone who works retail I don’t really agree. There are semi-consistent trends you see with age groups. All my Gen Z coworkers are a little brainrotted and have terrible attention spans. My millennial coworkers are all depressed. Boomers are all horrible people who reign terror down on any service worker they can get their hands on.
Every generation is a reaction both to new material conditions and to the errors of the previous generations