Older zoomer here, and I can agree with a lot of this, but not everything in my experience.
Point 1 is true for the most part. Point 2 is kind of 50/50 in my experience. I know lots of people who are actually married that I went to school with (I'm a few years out of college at this point). Don't get me wrong, there is a slight bit of that attitude, but for the most part, the people I know and went to school with are either dating, married, or just outright don't want kids or anything. At least not yet.
Point 3 is also kind of 50/50. I knew guys who were worse than what's described here. When I was in high school there were a few guys who were so addicted to porn and masturbation that they would just straight up skip a few classes and jerk off in the bathroom for half the day. On the flip side, there were people who just never watched porn because they didn't see the appeal of it. One of my best friends would make fun of the bathroom goblins as we called them, because and I quote "why do I need porn if I can just go get a girl? Hell, hire a hooker if nothing else." Always remember that quote lol. Don't entirely agree with it since I've become more religious since Highschool, but it's still funny to me.
Points 4 and 5....I pretty much agree with these. 99% of guys I know are straight. I can count on one hand the number of gays I know roughly my age, give or take a few years in either direction. The girls on the other hand are pretty insufferable pseudo fags that pretend to be literally anything but straight, but are actually straight. Every single "bi or pan" girl I've ever met has never dated anything but guys. And they're all about that stupid politically correct crap. They just want to be "part of the crowd", so they just regurgitate whatever the "popular" thing to say is, to get brownie points online. It'll change soon enough once the media lies finally stop.
Point 6, I can kind of agree with. I know a lot of people, myself included, are burnt out over everything. Most of the people I know in particular are generally pissed off because most of us graduated from college the year the kung flu hit, so we've been screwed over job wise. Fresh out of college, no one's hiring for a year. Then the jab comes along, and we get blacklisted because we refused to jab. And now no one's hiring anything but part time jobs where they want you to work 10 or less hours a week at less than minimum wage (most states only apply minimum wage to full time jobs or have a separate, much lower minimum wage for part time work). The few full times jobs you CAN find, want you to have X years of experience or be fresh out of college, which when you've been out of college for 3 years now because of all the political bull crap, instantly black lists you.
The other thing I've seen happen, is that a company WILL hire you, but only if you agree to take 4 different part time jobs, where they'll try to work you 12-15 hours a day on different tax forms, so they can pay you the lowest amount possible, while squeezing the most work out of you. I met up with a guy a few years younger than me I knew a few days ago that was working 6 or 7 different part time jobs like this, and he told me he can't do it anymore and is just going to quit and sign up for welfare since he'd make more money and actually be able to sleep more than a few hours a night. Which I don't approve of, but I fully understand.
The other thing I've noticed, is that a lot of even minimum wage law IQ labor jobs (cashier, bagger, car washer, etc.) won't even hire you anymore. I see the exact same 50 or so places putting out ads for the exact same jobs, week and week, month after month for these types of jobs. And they never hire anyone. I'm convinced they're just putting out the job ads for publicity and brownie points. "Oh look we're helping our community by hiring people we don't actually need to hire. Please come here and give us your business!" That's the only explanation I can think of, considering I never see any new faces at any of these places, so they're not hiring anyone and having them quit. They just straight up aren't hiring anyone. And I and others I know have applied for these types of jobs out of desperation, and never even got a rejection notice, much less a call back or an interview. People I know DO however want a family and a house, etc. Most just don't know how to afford it. I wouldn't say most don't want it, rather most just don't know how to get there given the current environment. I know a few people who tried, and bought a house. But had to sell within a year because they couldn't afford it.
With few exceptions, most people I know and knew in high school and college are now living with their parents and jobless, because it's either that or be homeless and starve. Most people try to help around the house or do odd jobs and things like that to do SOMETHING productive and make it feel like you're not leeching, but it gets depressing at times.
I'd compare our current generation to what's called the "lost generation" in Japan. A generation of people who got screwed over by the economic and political chessboard and have been abandoned by literally everyone while being told that we're useless and don't want to do anything because no one will give us a chance. As I said, it's kind of depressing at times, and one of the reasons I turned to God in college.
Point 7, Can't really fully agree with that one. Most of the people I know are more capable than their parents when it comes to technology. The building part is true for some, but not everyone is good at working with their hands so I don't really think that's because of helicopter parents. More just a talent orientation problem. From my personal experience, a lot of people my age have trouble finding the time to learn new skills outside of shop class or something like that if you're in school. When I was in high school, they laid so much homework on us for each class, that it took HOURS to do it all when you got home. The only time you had to do anything was over the weekend, and you wanted to relax, meet up with your few friends, etc. etc. So you never had any time to explore and learn new skills. It got even worse in college, because now not only do you have the college work, but you also have to find someway of making money to support yourself, or at least help out around the house if you lived with your parents.
Point 8, I can agree with to an extent. I do sometimes find it hard to concentrate on one thing for long periods of time, but that's often because I have zero interest in it. If it's something that I actually like, enjoy, or find interesting, I can do it for hours on end without interruption. Most people I know are like this.
Point 9, I honestly have no idea what this is talking about. Maybe it's more a thing women do, but most of the people I know (the women I hang out with are mostly tomboys, so I may not be the best person to talk about this), Most people I know don't care about "influencers" or "celebrities" and in fact actively hate them. They generally speaking only use social media for things like memes. In fact, I've noticed the most popular apps among people I know are things like Ifunny, instead of instagram. So moderately politically incorrect, right wing, meme apps.
It is however true that most of us only have a few "true friends". I'm not exactly a social person, but after graduation, most of us went our seperate ways and I may see someone I knew once or twice a year. From talking to people when I do run into them, most of us have basically no friends anymore. We have "tolerated people" who we put up with because we have to socially.
And finally, point 10. I kind of have to disagree with this one. Most of the people I know either legitimately are religious and have had a Christian revelation since graduation (like myself), or at the very least "pretend to be a Christian". I say this, because while most people I know ARE legitimately Christians and religion DOES play a big part in our lives (most of the people I've talked to say they couldn't get through life without God, and it's only him and Jesus who have helped them through the past several years). But of course I DO know a handful of fake Christians who are the "Oh yeah I'm totally a Christian, but like I also support the current thing, and they gays, etc. etc." type. Once had an argument with an ex GF about how she was convinced gays were natural and needless to say, we broke up soon after.
So in regards to point 10, my experience is kind of the opposite. And while I DO live in a more rural area than say, Chicago, I do live in a rural suburb (basically houses aren't on top of each other and we all have a few acres to ourselves), there are a few medium sized cities around the area with CSA (combined statistical area) populations of a few million. So I wouldn't exactly say middle of nowhere.
So yeah, there's a slightly different Zoomer prospective, from one who's old enough to have gone through college as well. Feel free to ask me questions too if you want since me and OP have slightly different experiences while being part of the same generation.
Older zoomer here, and I can agree with a lot of this, but not everything in my experience.
Point 1 is true for the most part. Point 2 is kind of 50/50 in my experience. I know lots of people who are actually married that I went to school with (I'm a few years out of college at this point). Don't get me wrong, there is a slight bit of that attitude, but for the most part, the people I know and went to school with are either dating, married, or just outright don't want kids or anything. At least not yet.
Point 3 is also kind of 50/50. I knew guys who were worse than what's described here. When I was in high school there were a few guys who were so addicted to porn and masturbation that they would just straight up skip a few classes and jerk off in the bathroom for half the day. On the flip side, there were people who just never watched porn because they didn't see the appeal of it. One of my best friends would make fun of the bathroom goblins as we called them, because and I quote "why do I need porn if I can just go get a girl? Hell, hire a hooker if nothing else." Always remember that quote lol. Don't entirely agree with it since I've become more religious since Highschool, but it's still funny to me.
Points 4 and 5....I pretty much agree with these. 99% of guys I know are straight. I can count on one hand the number of gays I know roughly my age, give or take a few years in either direction. The girls on the other hand are pretty insufferable psuedo fags that pretend to be literally anything but straight, but are actually straight. Every single "bi or pan" girl I've ever met has never dated anything but guys. And they're all about that stupid politically correct crap. They just want to be "part of the crowd", so they just regurgitate whatever the "popular" thing to say is, to get brownie points online. It'll change soon enough once the media lies finally stop.
Point 6, I can kind of agree with. I know a lot of people, myself included, are burnt out over everything. Most of the people I know in particular are generally pissed off because most of us graduated from college the year the kung flu hit, so we've been screwed over job wise. Fresh out of college, no one's hiring for a year. Then the jab comes along, and we get blacklisted because we refused to jab. And now no one's hiring anything but part time jobs where they want you to work 10 or less hours a week at less than minimum wage (most states only apply minimum wage to full time jobs or have a separate, much lower minimum wage for part time work). The few full times jobs you CAN find, want you to have X years of experience or be fresh out of college, which when you've been out of college for 3 years now because of all the political bull crap, instantly black lists you.
The other thing I've seen happen, is that a company WILL hire you, but only if you agree to take 4 different part time jobs, where they'll try to work you 12-15 hours a day on different tax forms, so they can pay you the lowest amount possible, while squeezing the most work out of you. I met up with a guy a few years younger than me I knew a few days ago that was working 6 or 7 different part time jobs like this, and he told me he can't do it anymore and is just going to quit and sign up for welfare since he'd make more money and actually be able to sleep more than a few hours a night. Which I don't approve of, but I fully understand.
The other thing I've noticed, is that a lot of even minimum wage law IQ labor jobs (cashier, bagger, car washer, etc.) won't even hire you anymore. I see the exact same 50 or so places putting out ads for the exact same jobs, week and week, month after month for these types of jobs. And they never hire anyone. I'm convinced they're just putting out the job ads for publicity and brownie points. "Oh look we're helping our community by hiring people we don't actually need to hire. Please come here and give us your business!" That's the only explanation I can think of, considering I never see any new faces at any of these places, so they're not hiring anyone and having them quit. They just straight up aren't hiring anyone. And I and others I know have applied for these types of jobs out of desperation, and even got a rejection notice, much less a call back or an interview. People I know DO however want a family and a house, etc. Most just don't know how to afford it. I wouldn't say most don't want it, rather most just don't know how to get there given the current environment. I know a few people who tried, and bought a house. But had to sell within a year because they couldn't afford it.
With few exceptions, most people I know and knew in high school and college are now living with their parents and jobless, because it's either that or be homeless and starve. Most people try to help around the house or do odd jobs and things like that to do SOMETHING productive and make it feel like you're not leeching, but it gets depressing at times.
I'd compare our current generation to what's called the "lost generation" in Japan. A generation of people who got screwed over by the economic and political chessboard and have been abandoned by literally everyone while being told that we're useless and don't want to do anything because no one will give us a chance. As I said, it's kind of depressing at times, and one of the reasons I turned to God in college. Point 7, Can't really fully agree with that one. Most of the people I know are more capable than their parents when it comes to technology. The building part is true for some, but not everyone is good at working with their hands so I don't really think that's because of helicopter parents. More just a talent orientation problem. From my personal experience, a lot of people my age have trouble finding the time to learn new skills outside of shop class or something like that if you're in school. When I was in high school, they laid so much homework on us for each class, that it took HOURS to do it all when you got home. The only time you had to do anything was over the weekend, and you wanted to relax, meet up with your few friends, etc. etc. So you never had any time to explore and learn new skills. It got even worse in college, because now not only do you have the college work, but you also have to find someway of making money to support yourself, or at least help out around the house if you lived with your parents.
Point 8, I can agree with to an extent. I do sometimes find it hard to concentrate on one thing for long periods of time, but that's often because I have zero interest in it. If it's something that I actually like, enjoy, or find interesting, I can do it for hours on end without interruption. Most people I know are like this.
Point 9, I honestly have no idea what this is talking about. Maybe it's more a thing women do, but most of the people I know (the women I hang out with are mostly tomboys, so I may not be the best person to talk about this), Most people I know don't care about "influencers" or "celebrities" and in fact actively hate them. They generally speaking only use social media for things like memes. In fact, I've noticed the most popular apps among people I know are things like Ifunny, instead of instagram. So moderately politically incorrect, right wing, meme apps.
It is however true that most of us only have a few "true friends". I'm not exactly a social person, but after graduation, most of us went our seperate ways and I may see someone I knew once or twice a year. From talking to people when I do run into them, most of us have basically no friends anymore. We have "tolerated people" who we put up with because we have to socially.
And finally, point 10. I kind of have to disagree with this one. Most of the people I know either legitimately are religious and have had a Christian revelation since graduation (like myself), or at the very least "pretend to be a Christian". I say this, because while most people I know ARE legitimately Christians and religion DOES play a big part in our lives (most of the people I've talked to say they couldn't get through life without God, and it's only him and Jesus who have helped them through the past several years). But of course I DO know a handful of fake Christians who are the "Oh yeah I'm totally a Christian, but like I also support the current thing, and they gays, etc. etc." type. Once had an argument with an ex GF about how she was convinced gays were natural and needless to say, we broke up soon after.
So in regards to point 10, my experience is kind of the opposite. And while I DO live in a more rural area than say, Chicago, I do live in a rural suburb (basically houses aren't on top of each other and we all have a few acres to ourselves), there are a few medium sized cities around the area with CSA (combined statistical area) populations of a few million. So I wouldn't exactly say middle of nowhere.
So yeah, there's a slightly different Zoomer prospective, from one who's old enough to have gone through college as well. Feel free to ask me questions too if you want since me and OP have slightly different experiences while being part of the same generation.