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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Everyone is calling out (rightfully so) the divisive bait but I think there is some interesting reason worth discussing behind this:

    Some Gen Z folks used the wisdom of millennials and just said fuck it and checked out, their lives might not be great but it’s probably stress free.

    Whereas for millennials, in theory having the American dream was possible, just less likely as time progressed. They are stuck with an almost sunken cost fallacy in which they have tried so hard cause they believed with enough effort they would make it. Now that they are burned out, they are faced with the dilemma of either stop trying and waste the high efforts or keep going and maybe they will get lucky.

    So in conclusion, millennials having it better can backfire in some sense.








  • There is an obvious answer here that both the author and the people in this thread are ignoring.

    Driving as a transportation method is a high risk/cost high flexibility/comfort solution.

    Pretty much everyone who has accepted driving as their transportation method understands that it’s not the safest way, so a lot of drivers are always willing to take a little bit more risk to save money or something like that.

    A better question is, why are we so okay with accepting such high risks for transportation. The human mind is terrible at risk assessment so I think it’s just a culture thing that car accidents are a part of life.