re: Gen Z and Millennials are burnt out, not from working hard, but because they lack hope

That has nothing to do with the theory.

People who experience mass trauma events, 9/11 and Covid being the two favorite events, are subject to greater amounts of anxiety because of those events.

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Have they seen the draft?

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Thankfully not

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Have they seen 18% home loan rates?

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lol at that. Would have loved to buy in the 80s or 90s.

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Have they seen a life where girls had to make their own school dance dresses?

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This one is weird.

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Where families shared a single car?

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Yes

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Where there was no internet?

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Of course

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Where phone range was limited to a 4ft cord?

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Yeah but at least you know who was lurking with the cord phone.

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People born around....1987 have been told some shite. They've had it just good enough to neither question rote teaching, nor press for or pursue available exceptionalism.

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People born around 1987 are still fixing everyone’s computer and tv from their parents to their kids. Same people are teaching excel to boomers that get paid more than them and also implementing AI.

I also think they might be spanking their kids.

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But it's tough to pinpoint the "why's"

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Sex imbalance in college, leading to larger sex imbalances in grad school, leading to larger sex imbalances in top jobs (especially in urban areas).




And dating apps accelerate the segregation.

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First off, y2k? Really?


Yeah, what the frick?

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shite when I was a kid during y2k my parents took us to our grandparents house in Many LA right on the Toldedo bend to escape the potential that was being spouted in the media. First time I shot a squirrel and caught a catfish on a jug that was bigger than 10 year old me.



I remember my pawpaw and mawmaw praying when the ball in new york was counting down from 10.

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Then 9/11, unless you were in those buildings, was just a spectacle

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Had many teachers in middle school with husbands in the army/national guard.

I vividly remember my 6th grade teacher breaking down when watching it on TV in science class be ause she knew her husband was going to be sent to fight in the eventual war on terror

It was definitely more than a spectacle.

And they would rather frick other women than most of you incels… ouch that one hurts

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Have they seen the draft? Have they seen 18% home loan rates? Have they seen a life where girls had to make their own school dance dresses? Where families shared a single car? Where there was no internet? Where phone range was limited to a 4ft cord? Where natural stone kitchen and/or bath counters were things in the upper 0.1% of homes? Where 1 TV and 3-channels was the middle class household norm? Have they seen 90% income tax rates?

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Can you please tell me your answers to these questions?

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Millennials are perhaps the first generation in human history to view those responsibilities as unique.

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Petty.

Pretending like only your generation ever experienced any hardships is absurd.