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

  • 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?)