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    10 months ago

    Can’t have kids entering adulthood with any ideas about changing or helping the world. Much better for business if they give up all those hopes and just get a job.

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      Even if they did have ideas, there’s a good chance they’d still get pushed into a confined and dehumanizing existence.

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        10 months ago

        Still better to try than not imo

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          Yeah, but I can kind of get why some fiction might want to frame adulthood more in the direction of tapering expectations with a “sordid lament over losing the parts of yourself you like” since that’s totally realistic