• @vividspecter
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    101 year ago

    This reads like satire:

    growing up in hyper-individualised contexts – an auto-play, after-pay environment – which differs greatly from the lives of their parents and grandparents, for whom the realisation of aspiration often involved planning, sacrifice and deferred gratification

    Even when they are trying to appeal to young people, they don’t even attempt to hide their condescension and contempt.