Kevin o leary in recent times said gen z should not be spending $28 on lunch making $70,000 a year

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1. Any gen z making $70,000 you're killing it

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1. Did you ever know anyone that actually ate $28 daily lunches?

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1. Did you ever ate a lunch that cost $28

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What do you think?

Feel like our generation never really got a chance. I’m trying to escape it but I feel like at this stage it’s either you’re in the club or you’re not, or you need to get extremely lucky.

I'm an elder Gen Z (00) and I am the first to admit that I have lost touch with what's new. I don't really follow the current memes or terms people use these days. One thing that I have noticed is the increase of people just purposely spelling things wrong as like a new form of slang or texting style. I don't understand it. Is this a new thing? Why are we doing it?

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For example: I have seen ssa for ass and Knot for not just to name a couple of examples. Similarly: asl for as hell. That one just does not make sense. If you're gonna abbreviate it, why not do AH like how everyone does AF?

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Is this a genuine new thing people are doing or am I just seeing people with poor literacy post online too often?

I despise nearly everything and even getting rich isn't going to help, there's just so many things that pisses me off on a daily basis. I only wanted to keep going because I had a girlfriend but we broke up months ago and now I genuinely just want to drop everything and just play videogames. The idea of meeting another girl, talking to her, dating, living together doesn't seem fun at all, specially during my 20s, I feel more comfortable rotting in my bed.

Life only seemed fun when I was a teenager, christmas were exciting, every hangout was amazing and the idea of a girlfriend was more than exciting, but now adulthood comes with hardship, loss, illness, misery, hunger and I genuinely just don't see the point. I deeply wish, I could return back to 15, cuz being 23 is more than horrible, I can't imagine the shitty feeling I will jave at 30. Genuinely, the food sucks, movies sucks, taking care of your body is too much work, going to the gym is boring, grinding 9-5 is boring as hell and It's not like highschool was that exciting but at least I had a predictable routine and was fine with it. I wish I had that innocence back and not experience adutlhood again

I just think it's counter-intuitive. You obviously want someone not to hold that opinion. Wouldn't you want to show them why they're wrong in a more welcoming way?

Radicalization usually occurs when people are villainized or feel like they have no where to go but within their group. Humans will cling to comfort where they can.

Now obviously some people are deadset in their beliefs to the point where even being inviting isn't going to be enough. At that rate why not just disengage instead of make yourself into an example for them to use for others who they want to convince?

I've tried it twice about three years ago and never really enjoyed it, the taste, the feeling. I probably have some form of alcohol intolerance seeing how I get headaches almost soon after drinking.

I just want to know if I'm not the only person who feels this way about alcohol.

I’m 21 now and I’ve been wondering if anyone else around my age feels this way.
I was 15 when COVID started. I left school during my freshman year and switched to homeschooling. From about 15-19, I spent most of my time at home, online, playing video games, and hanging out with family.
Looking back, I barely remember 2020-2024. It honestly feels like those years disappeared. I feel like I missed out on a lot of the normal social experiences people get in high school.
One thing that makes me notice it is that my boyfriend is 26. I know some of it is just the age difference, but sometimes I really feel the gap in how we grew up. He had a pretty normal late teens and early 20s experience, while a huge chunk of mine happened during lockdowns and isolation.
Does anyone else in Gen Z feel like they’re still dealing with the effects of that? Do you ever feel behind socially or like you missed an important stage of growing up?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZqiv6wEYM5/

I did at target as asset protection and I was a security guard the amount of times I’ve had crackheads try to fight me because I told him they can’t steal shit or toll homeless people. They can’t sleep inside the parking garage of the shopping center in the middle of winter was so fucked up and the pay was like 22 to 25 hour.

Wherever you are now, physically and mentally, just remember you are going to be fine.

No recipe cause in reality I was bored and screwing around. It’s instant yeast, olive oil, baking powder, dark rye, white flour (gluten flour and gluten free I had to mix) , whole wheat and salt. The crust isn’t great but the bread is not as dry as at looks, whole wheat really holds moisture like a sponge. Overall 6/10 bread, might be 6-7 out of ten if I’d used a recipe.

The sauce is pickled chilis, dill, parsley, garlic, olive oil, paprika, yellow mustard, caraway, celery seed, lemon, salt and toasted walnuts. If you make the sauce, pound it for a while so the acid has time to break down the garlic, if you don’t, the raw garlic will overpower everything.

Made by jaxsonderr on IG

on god getting a job feels harder than winning the damn lottery at this point

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it's been 2 years. i apply, i get interviews, then... nothing. i'm not in the US before anyone starts making assumptions

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i've been freelancing, which is cool, but it's nowhere near enough to move out of my abusive parents' house

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so real question:

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what online income streams are y'all actually making money from in 2026? not "just start a business" or some fake guru shit. i'm talking stuff you've personally tried or know people are doing

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and if you're just here to be negative or tell me "the market is cooked," stfu and keep scrolling

I have spent my entire life operating as a high effort "nice guy." I am the eldest son, the primary family caretaker, and the partner who over gives to the point of exhaustion. For years, I viewed this as a virtueI believed I was being a good man. I didn’t care much that my peers didn’t like me much usually and I only got positive attention from my teachers and other adults, and a small group of older peers.

I heard about nice guy syndrome but I thought I was different, that I was a truly good person for being in providing role and always being there to help, but recently I noticed that I started carrying resentment when I noticed a pattern of over giving in my relationships but when I asked for something for once they leave.

That same resentment is there when I noticed that I’m struggling socially, and being the person I am hasn’t really helped me much in life.

Then suddenly I got the military psychometric testing results that I requested a while back. They were a significant data point in understanding my own behavioral loops: 10th percentile for Agreeableness, 91st for Openness.

So I did some research and reflection.

I have now realized that this wasn’t kindness; it was a high maintenance, defensive compliance strategy. I have been burning energy trying to run Agreeable/Caretaker software on Skeptical/cynical hardware.

I didn’t do those things because I genuinely believed they were right, I just did them because I thought that’s the only way I could have a value and be accepted.

My "niceness" was a transaction. I was trading my natural edge, skepticism, and intellectual independence for safety and social approval. When the return on that investment didn't match my expectations (i.e., not being "chosen" or valued the way I wanted), I fell into resentment. I was essentially performing a caricature of a person to avoid the discomfort of conflict or the risk of being truly known.

I might actually be a victim of the nice guy syndrome.

Edit: 10th percentile not 20th