It’s happening because young people are chronically online and feel like they’re constantly receiving “bad news,” she said. “It makes them feel like Armageddon.”
It’s not rocket science, when a carton of eggs is inexplicably $12 it’s pretty fucking easy to figure out I’ll never own anything.
This is backwards logic. The real world creates the panic and the internet is a reflection of it.
The world could end and libs are going to call it Vibe-ageddon or the Vibepocslypse and blame it on the damn millenials on Tiktok before acknowledging reality.
Actually they've already switched to blaming Gen Z lmao
The real world creates the panic and the internet is a reflection of it.
someone needs to explain superstructure and base to journalists
"People think the world is bad because of vibes, not material reality" is basically the one core talking point of neoliberalism, so I'm not surprised anytime any Western article about basically anything takes this line. Ignoring reality in favor of vibes based analysis is the core belief of neoliberalism.
Can't afford a boat? Well, a rising tide lifts dead bodies just as well. Until they drown, that is
Just another example of how liberals refuse to engage with the primacy of material reality.
liberals continue to cling to the fantasy that ideas shape material reality more than material reality shapes ideas
"People think the economy is bad just because they can go on the internet and talk to other people and it turns out nobody has any fucking money except 20 billionaires."
96% of Americans are concerned about the economy
Could this be because the economy is bad? No, it's the people experiencing this reality that are wrong!
For all the shit liberals give conservatives for being disconnected from reality (deservedly), they sure aren't very tethered to it themselves.
Liberals: "It's not a real problem, you're just perceiving it incorrectly." X 4000
"You and everybody you know and care about are wrong and also stupid and me and this graph are right."
MFW finishing a STEM degree and going away to college again is my "doom spending".
The economy is so fucked I'm considering using my savings on a modern day PERMISSION SLIP TO WORK THAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT!
All I want is to GTFO my parents' basement, make some friends, and participate in society but the job market won't let me because I'm not a PhD Harvard valedictorian with 20+ years of experience.
"Doom spending," the new media term from the same people who harp on why it's important that inflation be constant lest people not spend all their money all the time to keep the economy afloat
Also "doom spending" aka spending money on non essentials to make existence tolerable for a few minutes.
The fuck is "doom spending" anyway? Like people spending their money as soon as they get it because it won't be worth as much the next day? I know I find myself doing that. It's how you deal with inflation when you're not bourgeois.
Or is it something else? America explain!
Climate catastrophe in 6-26 years, fuck it might as well spend this little bit of money I guess. It’s not gonna be anything to retire on anyway
Me with guitar pedals lately, especially weird shit from Chinese builders on AliExpress. Where else was I going to find a hot pink Klon Centaur clone?
I was surprised to see that the guys behind the Landtone klone kits (those Amazon build-your-own-klone deals) were selling finished pedals -- that was who I got mine from.
There's also this other brand, Ginean, who was apparently Harmon Group's overseas builder for various DOD pedals, and they have dirt-cheap versions of the Gonkulator, Carcosa fuzz, and a couple of other DOD drive pedals from before the CorTek buyout. The circuit boards, control layouts, and pedal cases are identical, just with different paint jobs/branding and no DOD stamp on the back plate. Oh, and a weird bevel around the top of the pedal case. But yeah, $35 USD Gonkulator "clone." Hard to go wrong with that, other than the fact that it's a damn Gonkulator and its mere existence is an affront to, uh, something that doesn't Gonk very well.
turns out, watching the global climate get worse faster every year with nothing being done about it makes you feel like there's no reason to save for the future :) I cashed out my meager 401k a few years ago for some padding/spending money because there's 0 reason to save for a retirement I will never make it to. fucking bleak!
Climate change. Genocide. Inability to change anything. Divorce.
Hell yeah, I'm doom spending.
Credit cards, maxed.
Watching the end of the world on a $5000 TV, priceless.
retail therapy
doom spending
