alt Hacker News>it is just plain bad for all Americans for China to advance its geopolitical ambitions.
In Gen Z's eyes, America is bad for Americans. That's what happens when you build a low trust society. America spent decades trying to build up a strong rapport among citizens and they tore it down and sold them out in a single generation.
Maybe china will be worse. But the appeals to nationalism simply will not work among our youth. We abandoned them, they will see the village burned to feel its warmth. Already happened in 2024.
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Recognizing that our tech leaders are attempting to march us into a sort of technological feudalism is not an inherently gen Z take.
I don’t think this is exclusively a Gen Z thing. I’m Gen X and could not agree more with this assessment.
America did not build a low trust society though. Just the opposite.
The issue is that trust was intentionally sabotaged.
If they think capitalism is bad for Americans, they’d really dislike being part of some failed state version of the country. Again, China isn’t going to come redistribute all the billionaires’ wealth to the poor American zoomers. They don’t give a fk what happens to any Americans. They barely care about their own commoners. They represent the Party’s interests exclusively. Whatever enhances their power. Ideally if they can screw the US billionaires they will, but with the wealth all going to China.