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.
I am a parent to a bunch of zoomers, no vax, no school (home-school), no cell-phones until they could afford to buy one themselves, oh and no pocket-money, except maybe on birthdays, but access to computers and fibre-connection. And yeah, they gamed, but also they developed the ability to research stuff.
I believed that the whole thing was coming down, and lots of people would be victims. I saw that at the beginning of the school-journey, back when I realized that my sons would be drugged to the eyeballs in class, for being smart and active. Not to mention my hardened stance against vaccination, which was an issue when trying to enroll in kindergarten, even as far back as the nineties. The 'two classes of people' promulgated by Vaxinda had me convulsing in 'I told you so' vibes.
One of my sons has been able to become a regional manager for a major service-provider/international corp. (Remember, no school). They valued his mental agility, can-do attitude, human soft skills, ability to gain respect amongst the raw labour, and computing/accounting prowess. Several of my kids own houses. My oldest owns two.
unfortunately the parenting is what got me.