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i get it now (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's wild, I grew up in poverty. My parents were basically homeless cultists for my early years. One time when I was very young, maybe 5, I asked for a dollar-store cap-gun and my mother told me they don't have money for it and I cried and never asked for another thing.

I know I had a bizarre situation growing up, but I also understood basic facts like money and either you have it or not, and eating was more important.

I feel like kids have been parked in front of marketing and propaganda and left to be raised by tablets and smartphones with ads and apps designed to sell products, and parents are so checked out that their own children have become corporate spawn, asking for the unreasonable, stealing credit cards to buy fortnite skins, expecting annual entertainment machine upgrades that cost as much as a month's rent.

this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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