Holy shit and I thought millennials and Gen X had it bad with how corporate our toys were.
I hate to be that person that's like "omg what kids like these days is poisoning them!" Especially because I come from the Mortal Kombat generation, but between Mr Beast, social media and shit like Roblox turning every hobby into a hussle I have to wonder what effect this will have on them.
Capitalism preying on kids was bad enough when I was a kid in the 90s and 00s (and from what I've seen from 80s cartoons, the generation before mine was pretty bad too), but it's a whole other level now.
Collapse is hitting hard and is only going to get worse though, so it is possible they'll go left.
Not having a union / being relatively young (30 or less) / his dad has some kind of small construction company that he intends to work for soon. He also grew up in Florida and strongly hinted that he moved to our extremely white northeastern state because it’s much less racially diverse. I just started this (my first blue collar job) a few months ago and I already have hundreds of pages of stories like this in a journal / book I intend to publish sooner or later.