Started writing a comment then noticed how much of the article is just quotes, so I’ll summarise instead of directly quoting and recommend reading it for additional context.<p>These kids are exactly the sort of overachievers and desperate to climb the ladder types you are probably thinking off… They didn’t need to drink the LinkedIn corporate-positivist cool aid, they were born in it, raised by it.<p>They are fully and un-ironically engaging in the performative positivism that makes LinkedIn intolerable to most adults with a greater degree of life (and adult social interaction) experiences… and because of how bad other social platforms have become some of them seem to like the little happy bubble that LinkedIn creates. The fact LinkedIn is just a <i>different</i> kind of toxic lie filled cesspool is not something they have realised yet because, to borrow an apt phrase I once heard “the naïveté of youth blinds you to the truth”, and they haven’t yet developed sufficient cynicism to see how shallow, meaningless and dishonest the majority of LinkedIn content is.<p>There’s a quote at the end from someone who sees the problem for what it is, the fact kids are now getting pressured into the business world before even getting into College or postgraduate work. But the standout quote is from their exemplar teen that likes linkedin where they quote one of his humblebrags, and it’s at that point it becomes obvious to me that that kid is already a walking talking business adult who has had their childhood destroyed before they even left college.