A lot of Gen Z/Gen Alpha weirdness is simply a reaction to a deteriorating society
A lot of Gen Z/Gen Alpha weirdness is simply a reaction to a deteriorating society
Hello friends, if you're a Zoomer like me (Well maybe, I was born in '96 so I'm either the last Millennial or the first Gen Z) you may have noticed that we're often the butt of many jokes. "The worst generation of snowflakes ever" or something of that nature. I will admit, we seem a little strange compared to old folks but when you actually take a step back and look at the facts it makes perfect sense.
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Zoomers have dumb language. One of the biggest things Zs get mocked for is lingo: Skibidibop rizz with the gyatt, deadass smh at my goofy ahh uncle. Took me a while to realize it, but when's it's not just memespeak the reason there are so many nonsense words floating around now is because big tech and social media has become so ludicrously censor happy that you need to talk like a fucking baby to avoid getting your post flagged for one reason or another. Even saying too many normal words in the "wrong order" is enough to get shadowbanned these days.
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Kids are inside and on their phones too much. What the fuck else are you expecting them to do? Putting aside the 2 year lockdown due to a pandemic, there's not many options for outside activities. Parks and playgrounds and other things just aren't safe a lot of the times. Whether it's animals, shady characters, or the jungle gym being delapidated. Teens can't go to the malls anymore because they're all closing and anywhere they gather is immediately swarmed with the cops. Nowadays, you go to any big city and the most happening spot is a McDonald's or something because at least you can eat and socialize without getting dirty looks.
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Z's are immature and rely on their parents for everything. I had a professor tell me that a not insignifigant amount of zoomers show up to job interviews with their parents and that's bad. I'll admit that everyone needs to grow up eventually but...when did attentive parents become a bad thing? Most older people I know had a bad relationship with their folks or they passed away early, so they were forced to mature sooner. Now this one is purely subjective because I can't speak for every 20 something and their parents but this just seems like another generational gap that's caused by shifting social values.
I can go on but I just had to jot all this down. The kids aren't crazy, you're just just not noticing how hard they've been hit by the downward spiral of the western world.
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Everything they say about GenZ is also things they said about millenials, of which I am, and which I'm sure they said about Xers and before as well.
Especially going to job interviews with your parents... I actually learned it was super common for Xers to have their parents negotiate everything for them, including jobs. Sometimes they might not even take you to the interview with them lol, at least there's some progress.
When I was young it was the walkman that was gonna be the ruin of society. You actually had psychologists on TV giving their theories as to how the youth uses the walkman to further alienate themselves from society or whatever. And in the 80s they had the Satanic cults panic lol.
They also said we were lazy, that we wanted everything handed to us, that we didn't want to work... and the same people that said that 10 years ago are saying that again but against GenZ. 20 years ago we spent too much time on the TV and it was gonna rot our brain, and now kids apparently spend too much time on the phone and it's gonna melt their eyes lol.
Looking into the job stuff specifically, it kinda sounds like the employers in question are mad that college graduates have a sense of self worth and don't want to get paid peanuts. One of the big complaints is that young people have "unreasonable salary expectations" and that could mean a billion different things in this economy.
Its the no body wants to work, I dont know anyone who doesn't want to work, i know people who dont want to work for penuts, or cannot magoc 5 years experience right out of collage, and no one with 5 years experience want an entry level job
That's it. Many people would be glad to work their way up from an entry level position that doesn't need years of higher ed and a pricetag of $000s. Those jobs just don't exist unless you're connected. And if you're connected, you're not really working you're way up, anyway.
You actually had psychologists on TV giving their theories as to how the youth uses the walkman to further alienate themselves from society or whatever.
Capitalism systematically atomizing society in a coordinated drive to extract profits: I sleep.
Young person listens to music while outside: REAL SHIT.
There were even movements in Europe to ban walkmen when they first came out. Some authors even wrote horror stories about it.
Maybe the real question is not whether this or that generation is the most spoiled, etc. But whether boomers are the most brainwashed into thinking they got everything through their own personal hard work, grit, and determination. I'm sure it wasn't always easy but the mere fact of workers being able to get an affordable education and nice house is pretty much unheard of in any other era. To hear them tell it, everyone else is a weakling for not building their own house while working 16 hours a day without nutritional food.
Either that, or we only hear so much about boomer complaints because their kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids are all online talking shit about the general lack of boomer self-awareness. (There are some good boomers, mind you.)