People might scoff at the petty vandalism, but how many of you over the age of 35 had a scrupulously clean adolescence?
For the under-30 crowd, everything in their post-puberty lives has been carefully recorded in a semi-public ledger, and they know it.
We should expect people to declare their independence as they enter young adulthood, and it's hard to do that without any space to safely screw up. The Facebook generation was aggressively conditioned to conform with their peers through an industrialized record-share-shame pipeline, so it's good to see gen Z pushing in the opposite direction.
Great to see young people put down their phones, step away from their screens, go outside and partake in simple natural joys like...checks notes...painting graffiti on subway cars.
A Luddite was "a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woollen mills, that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811–16)." They weren't anti-technology. They were anti-"having their jobs replaced by machines".
NYT article referred to in the article is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34004822