• canniest_tod@lemmy.world
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    41 minutes ago

    Am I supposed to be mad about this? The only jobs available to most of them basically constitute slavery.

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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    51 minutes ago

    They probably would do those things if they could afford to live comfortably and had a little extra disposable income but in today’s world every time you turn around someone is screwing you out of money. There isn’t anything left for fun stuff. Especially when the fun stuff company is doing some of the screwing lol

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    I cannot upvote a paywalled source

    yes, blurring the article if you don’t disable ad blocking is a paywall

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        2 hours ago

        People will do just about anything but use Firefox. Whatever, I love Firefox + Ublock Origin. I cannot imagine being a chump and rawdogging the internet will all the ads and bullshit.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Funny way of saying “half of Gen Z are not falling for the typical consumer spend spend spend trap”. And as a millennial I say good for them. About time large chunks of people see the consumption driven economy game for what it is.

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    4 hours ago

    Proud subscriber of dropout tv and they 100% deserve it. Everything else I mooch off someone else lol. But tbh the majority of stuff I watch are on dropout or Apple TV tbh.

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    5 hours ago

    Pfft. I’m in my 40s with an established engineering career and a small home that I’ve owned for 18 years now.

    I am also not paying for any streaming services I can avoid, not buying many games, sailing the high seas, and our cars are like 13/14 years old.

    Because shit is crazy, especially being in the US. I am keeping my world small and focusing on my family and my community.

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      5 hours ago

      Buy the game after a few years of bug fixes on sale with all the DLC for basically the same price as a sandwich… or pay $80 for a buggy broken incomplete experience with no real guarantee any promised content will ever materialize.

      Although I guess I need SOME people to keep buying them at launch to subsidize my frugality.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Yeah, wtf? I’m a huge fan of buying entirely too many games on sale, myself.

      Hopefully some significant life extension tech develops before I die so I can enjoy them all.

  • realitista@lemmus.org
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    5 hours ago

    Shit, I’m 52 and fairly well off but I do this. There are so many overpriced things around these days. A lot of tech is really overestimating what it’s worth.

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    8 hours ago

    Turns out saddling a generation with debt, and then telling them the AI is gonna take all the jobs doesn’t do a lot for moral, or our finances.

    Nevermind that there’s a middle East forever war 2.0 going on that’s jacking up the cost of everything right now.

    • Chris Lowles@lemmy.zip
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      6 hours ago

      Being an elder Gen Z (1998) adds a special layer to this cuz I’m pushing 30, running an open-source OS everywhere I can and I’m indirectly being called an iPad baby lmao

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    5 hours ago

    I only recently bought Baldurs Gate when it went on sale. You won’t catch me paying for price.