Gen-Z is a weird generation in the scheme of things. We date far less than any previous generation. Something like 50% of men between the ages of 18 and 25 say they've never had sex or been in a relationship before. The rates for workforce participation have also been steadily decreasing every year as young people decide to abandon the workforce and stop looking for work in general. Zoomers are falling behind on every major milestone from getting their drivers license to having their first kiss.
We've also seen a major increase in things like anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Bipolar etc. It's a stereotype that zoomers lack resilience and get burned out easily. Normal things seem to negatively impact them in ways that make life difficult to live.
I'm a zoomer. I know a bunch of zoomers. Many of us are finding ourselves unable to cope with adult life. It impacts both men and women in large numbers.
Hot take: Zoomers aren't just being lazy assholes, they actually have some form of autism. Idk if it's from the vaccines or the food or something else but there's definitely a very different psychological form emerging with each generation that hasn't existed with these numbers in the past. Young people genuinely have a much lower threshold for pain and exhaustion and need a lot of time to recharge after doing anything social or productive. They're afraid of the world and generally feel unequipped. This isn't everyone, but it's a big enough percentage to seriously impact society.
I think they will ultimately have a lot of influence. Society can't function when as much as half of the population isn't cut out for it. We're already seeing institutions change with safe spaces and stuff like that. I think society is slowly adapting to the reality that a huge percentage of our population now has neurodivergent traits. The world will look very different when they outnumber more adaptive types.
Nothing hot about this take. In Canada, at least, this is the clear truth.
The only thing I would push back on is that it is a step change that happened with a specific generation. They have been increasing all manner or stressors and decreasing all rewards for at least the last 60 or 70 years. It is just that now it has reach an absolute breaking point, where the majority of people can't get by instead of just 10 or 20%.
Now and then you will meet a rare, arrogant person who says the young generation is lazy, but most acknowledge the clear truth.
The kids get poisoned with a shit ton of damaging vaccines, all our crops are covered in poisons, TV is designed to keep you stressed and demoralized, you are told to avoid sugar, they fill food with health destroying polyunsaturated fatty acids. Women are taught to hate men. Whites are told they deserve extinction. Blacks are told the police are out to get them. Shit ton of EMF.
The lower threshold for pain and stress is real. Both from constant low grade life stress wearing them and from worse underlying health. I have chronic health issues, so I know how the ability to deal with stresses goes up and down with underlying health.
A lot of the 2Xs I know are super decent seeming people, but their lives are so hard. They commute so far for such little money. They pay way more attention to their health that previous generations, but they get middle age spread in their late 20s.