Archive link. https://archive.is/kc57n Speaking a a millennial, crises, please. The 911, dot com bust shaped our generation as much as the 08 events. And whoever has heard of smart phones making...
boomers were shaped by post-war plenty, for example, or millennials by the financial crisis of 2007-09. For Gen Z the popular view is that smartphones have made them miserable and they will live grimmer lives than their elders.
Speaking a a millennial, crises, please. The 911, dot com bust shaped our generation as much as the 08 events.
And whoever has heard of smart phones making gen Z miserable? Smart phones are probably the only reason we still have them around. Smart phones were their nurses, school chums, besties, talent scouts and lifelines. Adults and the ruined world boomers created made them miserable, not smart phones.
More of them are pursuing science, engineering and medical degrees; the humanities have fallen out of favour.
Humanities have not fallen out of favour: we just can't afford them anymore. If we gave gen Z and gen alpha free education and free housing and free food, we'd see them back in humanities. Oh look, carb dieting has fallen out of favour among starving people! Ridiculous.
In America the income of the average Zoomer, after adjusting for taxes and transfers, comfortably exceeds that of a millennial or a Gen X-er at the same age,
This is indeed good news. Maybe fewer of them than us millenials will drive Ubers and start only fans and be sugar babies for survival.
they felt so precarious that they were afraid to ask for pay rises
[Too busy laughing to comment]
I'd like to know how many of us did ask, and your results.
The prevailing view on phones making Gen Z miserable is about social media, specifically how you can instantly be gratified through a platform and do nothing else for the rest of the day. The...
And whoever has heard of smart phones making gen Z miserable? Smart phones are probably the only reason we still have them around. Smart phones were their nurses, school chums, besties, talent scouts and lifelines. Adults and the ruined world boomers created made them miserable, not smart phones.
The prevailing view on phones making Gen Z miserable is about social media, specifically how you can instantly be gratified through a platform and do nothing else for the rest of the day. The argument to be made about phones making lives miserable centers around how people are hyper-focused with their phones and ends up becoming detrimental to their mental health. As a Gen-Z myself I wouldn't say that my phone is my 'Best Friend', it's just a tool like a computer or television. To be honest, my smartphone wasn't even my defining device, I was one of those PC-gaming types and I would always be centered around my computer playing games and doing whatever with it, though that has the internet with it's adverse consequences (I am a STEM major anyways, so my hobby was game modding and programming).
Throughout my teen years (2010s) using platforms like Instagram meant that I was stressed out with seeing my peers doing fun stuff and then looking at myself seeing how I was doing nothing in comparison, it is precisely this which causes mental health issues, now it might be even worse as people are exposed to even more violent content than before with the current wars going on. If you ask me, Gen Z might be more restrictive on their kids using smartphones or the internet in general due to unrestricted access being a clearly bad thing.
If Gen Z shows up in force to vote, there will absolutely be changes. I'm constantly taken aback by the compassion that all the Gen Z folks I've met have had. It feels to me that they're the...
If Gen Z shows up in force to vote, there will absolutely be changes. I'm constantly taken aback by the compassion that all the Gen Z folks I've met have had.
It feels to me that they're the counterbalance to Boomer votes in more ways than one. They have the numbers to actually swing policies and they don't have a problem calling out deficiencies when they see them.
As for views changing when they start paying taxes, do we have evidence of this happening in all groups? I know there's the whole former hippie current becomes hard right conservative to protect their own pocket meme, but it's not clear to me if any of that is even true.
There was a conversation at work about whether we'd gotten more conservative as we'd gotten older. I'm 28, so just a year or two too old to be "officially" Gen Z. But honestly I've only gone...
There was a conversation at work about whether we'd gotten more conservative as we'd gotten older. I'm 28, so just a year or two too old to be "officially" Gen Z. But honestly I've only gone further to the left. My ideal system is socialism - straight up "workers own the means of production" stuff.
There is good evidence that, at least historically, people have become more conservative with age. This is necessarily because of taxes, but wealth accumulation is surely a factor. I've read that...
There is good evidence that, at least historically, people have become more conservative with age. This is necessarily because of taxes, but wealth accumulation is surely a factor.
I've read that millennials have been bucking this trend, not sure I can remember where.
Archive link. https://archive.is/kc57n
Speaking a a millennial, crises, please. The 911, dot com bust shaped our generation as much as the 08 events.
And whoever has heard of smart phones making gen Z miserable? Smart phones are probably the only reason we still have them around. Smart phones were their nurses, school chums, besties, talent scouts and lifelines. Adults and the ruined world boomers created made them miserable, not smart phones.
Humanities have not fallen out of favour: we just can't afford them anymore. If we gave gen Z and gen alpha free education and free housing and free food, we'd see them back in humanities. Oh look, carb dieting has fallen out of favour among starving people! Ridiculous.
This is indeed good news. Maybe fewer of them than us millenials will drive Ubers and start only fans and be sugar babies for survival.
[Too busy laughing to comment]
I'd like to know how many of us did ask, and your results.
The prevailing view on phones making Gen Z miserable is about social media, specifically how you can instantly be gratified through a platform and do nothing else for the rest of the day. The argument to be made about phones making lives miserable centers around how people are hyper-focused with their phones and ends up becoming detrimental to their mental health. As a Gen-Z myself I wouldn't say that my phone is my 'Best Friend', it's just a tool like a computer or television. To be honest, my smartphone wasn't even my defining device, I was one of those PC-gaming types and I would always be centered around my computer playing games and doing whatever with it, though that has the internet with it's adverse consequences (I am a STEM major anyways, so my hobby was game modding and programming).
Throughout my teen years (2010s) using platforms like Instagram meant that I was stressed out with seeing my peers doing fun stuff and then looking at myself seeing how I was doing nothing in comparison, it is precisely this which causes mental health issues, now it might be even worse as people are exposed to even more violent content than before with the current wars going on. If you ask me, Gen Z might be more restrictive on their kids using smartphones or the internet in general due to unrestricted access being a clearly bad thing.
If Gen Z shows up in force to vote, there will absolutely be changes. I'm constantly taken aback by the compassion that all the Gen Z folks I've met have had.
It feels to me that they're the counterbalance to Boomer votes in more ways than one. They have the numbers to actually swing policies and they don't have a problem calling out deficiencies when they see them.
As for views changing when they start paying taxes, do we have evidence of this happening in all groups? I know there's the whole former hippie current becomes hard right conservative to protect their own pocket meme, but it's not clear to me if any of that is even true.
There was a conversation at work about whether we'd gotten more conservative as we'd gotten older. I'm 28, so just a year or two too old to be "officially" Gen Z. But honestly I've only gone further to the left. My ideal system is socialism - straight up "workers own the means of production" stuff.
My suspicion is that this is pretty common with young people and related to the whole doing worse than your parents thing.
I think I'm actually not far off from where my dad was at. I just can't be complacent and let people be greedy assholes.
There is good evidence that, at least historically, people have become more conservative with age. This is necessarily because of taxes, but wealth accumulation is surely a factor.
I've read that millennials have been bucking this trend, not sure I can remember where.