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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

George Carlin’s punchline is appropriate here:

It’s called the American Dream because you’ve got to be asleep to believe it!

The zoomers arent alone. millennials and gen Xers are thinking about it too.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That’s great if you are rich or have dual citizenship.

The rest of you will be able to fend for themselves right?

Am actively looking for jobs abroad. Thin on the ground if your field isn’t in demand

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

There are a small number of countries that an American can immigrate to and gain residency on basically social security income alone, and a smaller number of those do not actually have age requirements on that.

But uh yeah, generally speaking, you need to either be quite wealthy or have an existing job offer for a fairly high paying job to functionally immigrate to most countries.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

I’m putting away a sizable nest egg for my daughter in the hopes that she’s going to use it to get out of this god forsaken place when she’s old enough.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

The American Dream isn't over, it just changed.

Y'know... to moving abroad.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

You don't have Gen Z to be considering it. The supreme court ruling on immunity has me strongly weighing options.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Good for them. I would too if I could afford it or had a college degree.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather make the US all it can be rather than abandon it. Its not too late. It can never be too late. Also I'm poor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

This is the stance my wife and I are taking lately. I'm native too, so dammit, I was born in this beautiful land, and I'll not let some fucking uneducated Christian rednecks force me to leave.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

If I could leave, I most certainly would.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

If I didn’t have close family, I’d seriously be getting out or out by now

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That is so weirdly worded. How many generations does GenZ have that there’s a “first generation“?

Edit: ooooh, children of immigrants.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

No the thing is, is that they believed that the American Dream was about being handed everything to them that they've been told to expect when coming or being born here from their immigrant parents.

The times had changed. This is not the America anymore that your parents had lied to you about and now that you've seen everything we natural born Americans have to put up with, you scatter.

Figures as much.