Joseph Riparian 🏳️⚧️ on Nostr: this was a great read; long on interest in how young people live, short on being ...
this was a great read; long on interest in how young people live, short on being judgmental about it.
"The rising costs of everything but tuition (although at my university that will increase next year as well) shade everything about college. It's incredibly expensive to do any of this, and the only way that people can afford it--not justify it, but afford it--is to turn the credential into higher wages. If you're thinking about short-term economic necessities (and I don't just mean employment after college, but balancing 30 or 40 hours a week of work with school right now), then anything that doesn't seem immediately practical will be viewed with hostility.
This isn't an intellectual response: it's a response from stress caused by specific material insecurities. The fact that such responses are then validated and intellectualized by social media and other outlets is a compounding factor."
https://musgrave.substack.com/p/the-post-generation
"The rising costs of everything but tuition (although at my university that will increase next year as well) shade everything about college. It's incredibly expensive to do any of this, and the only way that people can afford it--not justify it, but afford it--is to turn the credential into higher wages. If you're thinking about short-term economic necessities (and I don't just mean employment after college, but balancing 30 or 40 hours a week of work with school right now), then anything that doesn't seem immediately practical will be viewed with hostility.
This isn't an intellectual response: it's a response from stress caused by specific material insecurities. The fact that such responses are then validated and intellectualized by social media and other outlets is a compounding factor."
https://musgrave.substack.com/p/the-post-generation