social media and our higher order needs have conditioned people that are positioned well below the financial upper class to feel like they are already at a loss. The zeroth line has been repositioned. It is why you see unironic takes about the poverty line being at $150k. This generation isn't gambling to survive, they're gambling to actually have... See more

If an individualized solution "saves" me from capitalism but leaves everyone I know stuck in the same trap, I didn't save myself from capitalism—I just changed my social class.

an angsty mismatch between personal expectation and economic reality