I am not a fan of whoever determines and names these artificial age groups. The WWII Baby Boomers goes out to 1964. Are we supposed to believe births in 1964 had much with the boys coming home in 1945?
All this information is suspect, as many refuse surveys routinely. Projection by survey is fraught with problems.
Lastly, do we really need to know how much sex this age group is having? Too much information.
Gen Z here. All true and worse than the stats say in my experience. I can’t speak for those that didn’t acquire a skill set or attend a top 20 university - I can only imagine it’s significantly worse for them. Every single one of my friends who works a solid 80-120k entry level job (tech, financial services, etc) is perpetually discontent. We see through the facade that is “work” which is mind numbing non creative data entry at best. The ladder is heavy at the top for industries which don’t monitor KPIs like a hawk. Boomers are 8/10 times miserable people and corporate culture is a mirror image of high school but with 0 privacy. Almost everyone I know either has quit their job in the past 6 months to pursue their own start-up, already works on a start-up or is saving up to quit within the next 12-18 months. For those that are unmotivated which I relate to because of an innate sense of unworthiness (which happens when reality meets perfectionism) there is no help (good therapists comprise 20% of all at best and drugs merely sedate you), only a willingness to put one foot in front of the other each day. The world continues to become more competitive and legacy institutions squeeze it to continue exploiting outdated systems of knowledge and power. Decentralization as a macro trend clearly threatens their way of life as governments and the corporations entangled with them grip onto our autonomy. Ultimately my understanding as to why the world is so mucked up, boils down to the simple fact that people are unwilling to change because it’s hard - objectively. Unfortunately this just means people in power pass that burden further and further down the societal ladder. Somehow I remain optimistic - a lot of my generation actually cares about ourselves, other people and the future. AI will do the sweeping out of the stagnant people and change makers will adapt. The world is as narrow as we make it and as wide as we want it. One day at a time.
Not seeing any decentralization. The federal government is not going to decentralize and the only time corporations do so is to rid themselves of perpetually underperforming divisions. Just go to the grocery store and look at all the food items controlled by just a few food companies. The other smaller companies are raked over the coals by grocery brokers. Even the internet is centralized as probably 80% or more only use Google to search the internet. Even AI will the trained and controlled by the powerful.
Respectively disagree. I think you are focusing on a snapshot in time which doesn’t align with the trends in education and finance decentralizing at exponential rates since web 2 to 3 transition started. Those are just the first two then everything follows as a derivative. Governments won’t go away but they will have to adapt. It takes time but AI agents will just add to that rapid change. As long as the “misinformation” people don’t get their way with the law I don’t see any other significant roadblocks.
Children who grow up without their parents setting boundaries have high levels of anxiety and depression.
By the same token, zoomers look around and, based on the capital markets and what they see on social media, determine that the route to riches comprises cozying up to the political class, deftly curating an online persona, and maybe "financially engineering" a loss-making company to sell to private equity.
The free market profit and loss system - and the inherent morals and ethics it entails - no longer exists to illustrate to them the merits of productive achievement and low time preference.
Maybe worst of all, money has lost its soundness, replaced with fiat paper that is created ex nihilo by the whim of a cabal of bureaucrats and cronies.
What generation hasn't had a "midlife" crisis? It's nothing more than the false self trying to pretend it is real. Suppose your generation (and there were several) lived through the Civil War. Then you could not be faulted for having a crisis of some sort.
I am not a fan of whoever determines and names these artificial age groups. The WWII Baby Boomers goes out to 1964. Are we supposed to believe births in 1964 had much with the boys coming home in 1945?
All this information is suspect, as many refuse surveys routinely. Projection by survey is fraught with problems.
Lastly, do we really need to know how much sex this age group is having? Too much information.
Gen Z here. All true and worse than the stats say in my experience. I can’t speak for those that didn’t acquire a skill set or attend a top 20 university - I can only imagine it’s significantly worse for them. Every single one of my friends who works a solid 80-120k entry level job (tech, financial services, etc) is perpetually discontent. We see through the facade that is “work” which is mind numbing non creative data entry at best. The ladder is heavy at the top for industries which don’t monitor KPIs like a hawk. Boomers are 8/10 times miserable people and corporate culture is a mirror image of high school but with 0 privacy. Almost everyone I know either has quit their job in the past 6 months to pursue their own start-up, already works on a start-up or is saving up to quit within the next 12-18 months. For those that are unmotivated which I relate to because of an innate sense of unworthiness (which happens when reality meets perfectionism) there is no help (good therapists comprise 20% of all at best and drugs merely sedate you), only a willingness to put one foot in front of the other each day. The world continues to become more competitive and legacy institutions squeeze it to continue exploiting outdated systems of knowledge and power. Decentralization as a macro trend clearly threatens their way of life as governments and the corporations entangled with them grip onto our autonomy. Ultimately my understanding as to why the world is so mucked up, boils down to the simple fact that people are unwilling to change because it’s hard - objectively. Unfortunately this just means people in power pass that burden further and further down the societal ladder. Somehow I remain optimistic - a lot of my generation actually cares about ourselves, other people and the future. AI will do the sweeping out of the stagnant people and change makers will adapt. The world is as narrow as we make it and as wide as we want it. One day at a time.
Not seeing any decentralization. The federal government is not going to decentralize and the only time corporations do so is to rid themselves of perpetually underperforming divisions. Just go to the grocery store and look at all the food items controlled by just a few food companies. The other smaller companies are raked over the coals by grocery brokers. Even the internet is centralized as probably 80% or more only use Google to search the internet. Even AI will the trained and controlled by the powerful.
Respectively disagree. I think you are focusing on a snapshot in time which doesn’t align with the trends in education and finance decentralizing at exponential rates since web 2 to 3 transition started. Those are just the first two then everything follows as a derivative. Governments won’t go away but they will have to adapt. It takes time but AI agents will just add to that rapid change. As long as the “misinformation” people don’t get their way with the law I don’t see any other significant roadblocks.
Children who grow up without their parents setting boundaries have high levels of anxiety and depression.
By the same token, zoomers look around and, based on the capital markets and what they see on social media, determine that the route to riches comprises cozying up to the political class, deftly curating an online persona, and maybe "financially engineering" a loss-making company to sell to private equity.
The free market profit and loss system - and the inherent morals and ethics it entails - no longer exists to illustrate to them the merits of productive achievement and low time preference.
Maybe worst of all, money has lost its soundness, replaced with fiat paper that is created ex nihilo by the whim of a cabal of bureaucrats and cronies.
No wonder they're poor and depressed.
If xx Bitcoin does´nt get you laid, what will...?
So gen Z not having kids, means NO sex..m/f
and No one to inherit their.....Bitcoin = hold them forever...?
What generation hasn't had a "midlife" crisis? It's nothing more than the false self trying to pretend it is real. Suppose your generation (and there were several) lived through the Civil War. Then you could not be faulted for having a crisis of some sort.