Kick out the bottom rungs, financialize everything, give em crippling anxiety, and DONT SAY SOCIALISM. What happens when you have large swaths of young people (particularly young men) with no prospects and no ownership in their community?
“You can’t run an economy on people waiting to get old enough to finally do something with their lives.”
I see an interesting and growing section of the internet of these terminally online, lightly employed (or perhaps unemployed), mentally ill (and I dont mean that in a derogatory way) discord users. It’s like you lift up the rock and they scuttle out from underneath. Maybe they’re a server mod, maybe they’re kinda chill, but their life happens here. Their friendships are largely here, and sometimes they are so anxious they don’t even talk in voice chats. I find it’s usually an anime pfp (which I technically have one, so no shade) and some of the most active users within a community.
It’s strange to me that discord has developed into a 3rd place somehow, but speaking as someone who is relatively socially active, going out is expensive as hell and many of us young people don’t have a lot of space to hang out at home. If you live with your parents? Who knows what the situation is like. 3rd place-like venues have opened up from time to time. Something like a video game themed bar with a selection of board games. Or an arcade bar with sticky couches and an xbox 360. But these are like $50-60 per person somehow. How tf am I going to spend time here every week. Is there even a model for 3rd places in our economy?
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