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Every young person goes through this. They want to change the shitty world and have energy for it when they are young, but no power, money or influence whatsoever.
Later in life, you have power, money and influence but no energy.
Lols.
Also every generation think they are special and better than previous generations. But you need to have been around for a few generations to see that.
Actually gen z is the first generation I've seen that blames boomers for everything, and have a us vs them mentality, probably created by social media.
I would say millennials blame boomers for the economy and the reasons why we struggled so much to get a house (if they even have one by now)
So if gen z was in the place of boomers, they would have done differently?
I don't think so. Each person has similar needs. Safety and power comes from money, and money comes from careers or inheritance.
It doesn't matter which year you are born. You all join the circus going on here on earth. And you can only influence your little bit of a single corporation.
If you are a politician, you influence laws, but those laws are often easily bypassed and exploited for profit.
So I wouldn't blame generations of people for anything they did. Just like I don't blame Gen Z for being how they are. They are a product of their environment, same as everyone before them.
Okay... I don't now why that's massively relevant to what I was saying. I wasn't arguing anything in particular other than saying that I've not seen that stereotype being zoomer v boomer and mostly seen it millennial v boomer
I didn't mean to argue about anything. Just a comment with my thoughts.
Fair enough