Taylor Lorenz

and crypto and speculative kind of, I mean, effectively gambling, I would say with these like meme coins and meme stocks.

And a lot of those kids have ended up in the looks maxing sort of community and adjacent communities.

And there's a lot of overlap between

the like meme coin crypto world.

And it's just nihilism.

It's basically like the entire economic system in America is a lottery anyway.

What's the point of, you know, investing?

There is no such thing as like working for 40 years for a stable company.

There is no stability in the world.

And I get it.

Like these are kids that grew up.

Donald Trump, you know, has had a political career for like 10 years.

So it's, they sort of have primarily known him as our president.

Um,

They had covid.

They have you know, it's like there's a lot of upheaval that they've witnessed.

And so I think they just this is how they're kind of, you know, reacting to that.

Yeah.

Um, you know, it's given me a lot of empathy.

Like I was thinking of this recently.