when millennials were first heading into high school and college there was a huge trend in news stories about how stressed out our kids are, how their backs are getting messed up from carrying so many books, how they’re sleeping less and doing more school work, and how we should do more to help our kids have the childhoods we had because our kids are falling apart from stress and being forced to be more productive than kids should be. but then once millennials started hitting the workforce all the news was about how millennials are lazy and narcissistic and entitled lmao you were real concerned about us until you found out a 23 year old is more qualified to do your job than you
Mackenzie Bezos becoming the 5th richest person alive by doing nothing but playing the long game and somehow managing to swerve that Prenup with IRL Lex Luther is super dope, but what I care about most is what she ends up doing with that money.
Stealing from and dethroning the rich is cool as shit but ultimately means absolutely nothing to me if she doesn’t meaningfully redistribute that flow back into society. Which she probably won’t.
Mackenzie Bezos could build around 600,000 housing units for the homeless and low income families, and STILL have just under 7 Billion in walking around money.
in 2009 florence welch said “leave all your love and your longing behind, you can’t carry it with you if you want to survive” and in 2018 she said “the loneliness never left me, i always took it with me, but i can put it down in the pleasure of your company” and that is growth