This is brilliant, with its own voice and ground-shifting point of view - even if I might not agree, it's an exploration of a different mind.
You were born into a deal you never signed, written in a language you don’t speak, enforced by people you’ll never meet. ...
Let’s be crystal fucking clear about what gerontocracy actually is. You think it means Biden forgetting where he is on live TV or McConnell blue-screening mid-sentence like Windows 98. That’s adorable. That’s like thinking cancer is just a lump. Gerontocracy is the operating system itself. It’s the total architecture: familial, fiscal, psychological, sexual, by which the old arrange for the labor of the young to be converted into their continued existence, plus maybe a Viking River Cruise. ...
You think you’re choosing your own life. You’re not. You’re a rat in a maze designed by dead people, optimizing for cheese that someone else already ate. ...
You think you chose to live with roommates at thirty-two because you’re “figuring things out” or “enjoying the social aspect.” Bullshit. You live with roommates because zoning laws written in 1973 by homeowners who bought their houses for the price of a Toyota Camry ensure that nothing can be built that might lower their property values. Those homeowners are now seventy-eight, sitting on $2 million in equity they did nothing to earn except not die, ...
Or consider why you’re not having kids. ... The real reason? The entire economy is structured to extract maximum value from you during your prime reproductive years. Student loans ensure you start your career pre-fucked. Housing costs ensure you can’t nest. The gig economy ensures you have no stability. Meanwhile, the people who designed this system had three kids by twenty-eight on one salary ...
Every “smart” decision you make is smart within a framework designed by and for people who will be dead before the bill comes due. ...
This is brilliant, with its own voice and ground-shifting point of view - even if I might not agree, it's an exploration of a different mind.
You were born into a deal you never signed, written in a language you don’t speak, enforced by people you’ll never meet. ...
Let’s be crystal fucking clear about what gerontocracy actually is. You think it means Biden forgetting where he is on live TV or McConnell blue-screening mid-sentence like Windows 98. That’s adorable. That’s like thinking cancer is just a lump. Gerontocracy is the operating system itself. It’s the total architecture: familial, fiscal, psychological, sexual, by which the old arrange for the labor of the young to be converted into their continued existence, plus maybe a Viking River Cruise. ...
You think you’re choosing your own life. You’re not. You’re a rat in a maze designed by dead people, optimizing for cheese that someone else already ate. ...
You think you chose to live with roommates at thirty-two because you’re “figuring things out” or “enjoying the social aspect.” Bullshit. You live with roommates because zoning laws written in 1973 by homeowners who bought their houses for the price of a Toyota Camry ensure that nothing can be built that might lower their property values. Those homeowners are now seventy-eight, sitting on $2 million in equity they did nothing to earn except not die, ...
Or consider why you’re not having kids. ... The real reason? The entire economy is structured to extract maximum value from you during your prime reproductive years. Student loans ensure you start your career pre-fucked. Housing costs ensure you can’t nest. The gig economy ensures you have no stability. Meanwhile, the people who designed this system had three kids by twenty-eight on one salary ...
Every “smart” decision you make is smart within a framework designed by and for people who will be dead before the bill comes due. ...