Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

One useful lens for understanding the millennial identity crisis is the simultaneous thinning-out, dissolution or disruption of long-standing social substrates for intimacy, self-development & meaningful work.

It's actually useful in a lot of contexts to look for "social substrates" — environments or converging environmental factors that enable & encourage individual or cooperative behavior that's otherwise really hard or not even salient as a possibility

Jobs are a substrate for meaningful work — most people will get more done, produce more value & capture more value for themselves through wages if they can spend most of their time doing what they're good at and leave everything else (e.g. business admin) to their employers.

Marriage & sex rates have plummeted. At best, having a family is an Old Timey choice; at worst, Do You Breeders Hate The Environment? Gender relations are increasingly unhinged, Tinder's the default for meeting people & nobody can afford to give up a rent-controlled studio anyway