The enemy is simultaneously weak and strong.

"You're not creative, you're not future-thinking, you're focused on threats in the present," he said, adding that those qualities could threaten America's culture of innovation. He noted that Mark Zuckerberg, a millennial, was 20 when he founded Facebook, but that Gen Z has only Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai to compare themselves to. Millennials, he argued, rebuilt the "entire world."

Yes and Meta is doing wonderfully right now, and surely capitalists think long term :lenin-sure: :this-is-fine:

Malala was literally shot in the skull and survived, what did Zuck even do? Create someone nonsense "metaverse" that no one cares about?

https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-are-weakened-kids-social-media-oped-says-2023-1

  • fishnwhistle420 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Mark Zuckerberg is the only good millennial because he created a social media platform that mentally weakened everyone younger than him, thereby threatening American culture and capitalism?

    That about right?

    • culpritus [any]
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      2 years ago

      "We have a whole generation that's doing terribly," Haidt is quoted as saying in Varadarajan's op-ed. Haidt pointed to high rates of anxiety and depression among young people and said that a "performative" social media culture was to blame.

      but Zuck is a billionaire, so how could he have done anything bad? the market would surely have corrected his wealth away if he did bad things to :amerikkka:

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        "There are high rates of anxiety and depression among young people. Social media is to blame, not the rapidly accelerating, scientifically proven destruction of the planet which is leading to readily visible ecological devastation, the sixth great extinction, and probably the end of all life on earth!"

        Like jesus christ dude wake up and smell the burning manatees.

        • culpritus [any]
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          2 years ago

          "If corporations become less effective because everyone's afraid of Twitter, afraid of what will be said about them," Haidt said, "this could severely damage American capitalism."

          oh noes peoples are talking openly about how :amerikkka: is bad and stuff, that's not good!!!1!11!!!

          • FlintstoneSpiceLatte [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            CHUDS: "To find out who rules over you....HEY! Why are you criticizing both racism AND capitalism? YOU CAN'T DO THAT! 4chan said not to!"

            (But that reminds me, are the Koch brothers funding 4chan or something? How did a site full of edgelords conglomerate into being a GOP cheerleader website?)

    • Phish [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      When you put it that way the thesis of this article sounds pretty fucking stupid, doesn't it.