Maybe it was the ATM fee that plunged your account into overdraft or a rent hike that stretched your budget past the brink. It could have been a boomer calling you out for buying too much avocado toast (which...you've never actually done) or someone you follow on Instagram posting a "new house who dis" pic without acknowledging it was a cash offer funded by the Bank of Mom and Dad. Whatever set you off, it's clear that money rage-yours, ours, everyone's?-is in the air. Our survey of zillennial women quantified the vibe: A large share of you are beyond the point of ambient financial frustration and are feeling full-on livid. And when we asked you to sound off on the subject, your responses revealed a widespread struggle to survive, let alone thrive, in a shitsandwich economy that feels less sustainable by the day.
"The social system is becoming unlivable for many people, including some who are relatively privileged," says cultural philosopher Nancy Fraser, PhD, author of Cannibal Capitalism. This, friends, is what happens when lack of money + lack of time + lack of options = declining quality of life for folks across the board.
And make no mistake, Fraser adds: It's a feature, not a bug. "The system incentivizes powerful investors, corporations, and people dedicated to amassing more and more profit to help themselves freely to a lot of non-monetized resources-from nature and the environment to the unwaged care work that women especially do in families, communities, and neighborhoods." And now? Many of us have hit our breaking point, which explains why we seem to be witnessing "a multidimensional crisis of the whole social order," says Fraser, one that many young women have long sensed was coming.
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