Didn't Neo just have the life of the guy from Office Space
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And the guy in Fight Club, and the guy in American Beauty (minus the wife and daughter) 1999 was full of films about being sick of the seemingly idyllic stable yuppie life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Giving them perhaps more credit than they deserve, some of that was probably grappling with the underlying rot of the 90s status quo. like the fact that millennials envy a stable job by comparison doesn't actually mean that prior way was great.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Nymphomachy and
Well yeah all the eyerolling at other people's seemingly unjustified unhappiness in the world won't succeed at actually making them happy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Yeah, especially because ultimately what millennials envy is a *myth*, a mirage. The Startup Job in the Tech City, the Nice Job and Comfortable House in the Suburbs, these are all fake, sales pitches buoyed up by triumphant narratives about how it'll All Be Worth It.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
'Cause that stable 90s job still involved a fuckton of abasement, microaggressions, distaste, and ennui; the good 50s job still involved being away from your family. We envy *pieces* of it, nice-sounding perks, but not the base state they conceal.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
What Millennials envy is affordable commodities and the ability to sit down, or come and go as one pleases The idea of having one of these Gen-X yuppie jobs where you sit in a cubicle all day still kind of makes me want to slowly decapitate myself with a power sander
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @loudpenitent and
My mom sold copier machines for a midwestern business technology wholesaler and I visited her at work a couple times and honestly if I had her job for a day I deadass would be handcuffed to a hospital bed by midnight
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @loudpenitent and
Sales is a... particular set of pressures and stimuli that most generic office jobs intentionally lack
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I've always run away from any job opportunity that would have had anything to do with sales. I could maybe have survived as a sales engineer, but actually doing sales? Hell no.
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I was actually the top sales guy at my office back in the day and I think it broke something inside me
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AB9RF and
I deeply related to Bill in the King of the Hill episode about the protein bar MLM
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