America desperately needs a return to AMERICAN values.
More than half of Gen Zers want to be an influencer — 57% to be exact, according to a 2023 survey of 1,000 Zoomers — but content creators caution it’s not as lax as it seems.
“It’s just constant, Monday through Sunday,” TikTokker Hannah Williams told CNBC. “From the time you wake up to the time you go to bed, the internet’s on, so you’re on as well.”
The 27-year-old runs the popular account Salary Transparent Street, which boasts 1.4 million followers. After quitting her job in 2022 to pursue content creation full-time, Williams now rakes in a sizable $125,000 — but at what cost?
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I'm a teacher and it's true. Most kids have completely unrealistic expectations for adulthood, and their parents do nothing to set them straight. They all want to be YouTubers, gamers, and professional athletes. That's it. I never see any kids who say they want to be veterinarians or plumbers or anything that's actually useful to society. A few of the girls will say they want to be nurses, but only because they think all nurses make a ton of money and don't realize the amount of training, work, and human interaction involved.
I'm terrified of getting old and having to rely on Gen Z and Gen Alpha to help me.
Sounds like they're also clueless as to how much work goes into being an online "influencer". Even for those who "just stream videogames", it nets very little money if you're not sponsored so most are just doing it as a hobby after getting home for their day job and those who managed to go full time are working 100+ hours a week as it's essentially running a business. Also your entire enterprise can just go poof if YouTube/Twitch/etc decide to deplatform you.
It's because they're handed everything, expect everything and don't have discipline and boundaries.
It used to be a kid could make a rew bucks delivering papers etc, now because of soy and balless men that don't work, all their examples are low-T "clean" jobs in the A/C - with ZERO clue about what things cost and more importantly, how much effort, work and talent it takes to exchange time for said trinket...let alone the basics that all adults are now struggling to provide - no frills, vacations or extras.
They were groomed by government schools to be reliant on government, embracing communism - which sounds great when you know nothing, have nothing and need to gibs.
Sounds like teachers lost their ability inspire. I know my kids complained 10 years ago the example at school was teachers on the internet all day. So my kids were moved to charter schools. A nurse, an aerospace engineer, a cyber security nerd and an entrepreneur who runs his own company after 10 years in the marine corps