I'm a late Gen X guy. Things were not easy, but I had a way to succeed through education. I was just grateful my life was easier because my parents had done a lot of suffering and heavy lifting to make sure I had a chance at a better future.<p>I would hate to be a kid today. The majority are going to have it tougher than the last 3-4 generations. No job security, not enough jobs, housing out of reach, Uni too expensive without loans and if you graduate, corporations game IT contract work / H1B's at the expense of kids getting out of Uni.<p>People want change but, I'm afraid they're going to get, the kind of change they don't need.<p>Need to make sure every kid who wants an education can get an affordable one and that there are no 3 million H1B's and their spouses working in the USA. India needs to stop exporting its poverty to the USA but, I doubt the politicians will go against their corporate overlords.
It's hard to fathom any of this, and it's seriously concerning how out of touch Gen Zers apparently are. These unreasonable expectations of an entitled and clueless generation are pretty jawdropping. I hate to use those words, but that's what the results of this survey are. And why shift to the right? They're the ones who tank the economy every time they're in power and have done so for decades now. Furthers my theory that Gen Z doesn't bother to understand how anything works.<p>I get it. Things really suck right now. Social media has ruined an entire generation's childhood. But millennials faced these same challenges, if not more so. Demanding that you need to be a one-percenter to be financially comfortable is just so off base that it's beyond comprehension. I'm well into my life and career, and I don't even see an expectation of a half or even a third of the Gen Z number as realistic. And again, the shift to the right is basically like they've asked themselves "how do we make it worse for ourselves?". Do they really think one-percenters want to share their piece of the pie?<p>Edit: None of these remarks about any particular person and are commentary about the aggregate generation as described by this survey. I perfectly understand that Millennials and Gen Zers have been handled a terrible hand. But I have to admit that I am frustrated with Gen Z bending towards the right in this recent election and with their inability to be realistic in any way whatsoever if the results of this survey are to be believed.