One thing I have noticed is how prevalent the hustle culture has become among Millennials. LinkedIn is a hotbed of narcissism, and Twitter has a ton of self-proclaimed business superstars who have made money by having companies entirely dependent on using foreign labor and providing shitty service for customers. It's quite appalling how often you hear fellow Millennials go on and on boasting about their own "successes" or try to sell themselves without an ounce of honesty.
The hustle of creating "passive income" means that we are going to see a lot of sociopaths becoming landlords and doing the bare-minimum for those who rent from them, and the quality of services will continue to decline across all companies as there is no value in providing a good service, merely making money. The decline of quality we have seen from the boomer generation onward (yes, that includes you, Generation X, you aren't exempt from being self-destructive narcissists like your parents and your children) is going to ramp up significantly.
Some people will say, "blame the system, not the person," but for god's sake, eventually someone has to stand up and refuse to operate as basically a scam artist. For as many supposed "leftists" there are among Millennials, they sure have no qualms about taking the worst aspects of human greed and using that as their core business model.
Am I over-exaggerating here?
Unfortunately that's because narcissism is what gets rewarded in the labor market. Having powerful friends, err I'm sorry, networking is the be all end all of getting work these days, because fuck having skills. Narcissism just makes it easier to obtain what really matters.
This is such a lower mindset. The reason you hire only people you know or friends of friends is because that's the ONLY legal way to vet anymore.
Why the fuck would I take a chance on some stranger who claims to have skills instead of just going with somebody I trust's son who at least has been vouched for.
The rest of this thread is equally retarded, using "networking" to mean connecting with people on LinkedIn in, instead of demonstrating your capability to those you have relationships with and trading on that reputation.
I have customers I never called, never met personally, and don't even share a language with that carry certain months. Simply because I took care of their brother or friend and they gave the recommendation.
Y'all want to talk about white communities and living off the grid but you won't make the connection that that's how things function in such a place. That's what gatekeepers IS. Not this pseudo liberal "meritocracy" that never existed in the first place.