The problem with these GenZ statistics is that they don't compare to Millennials and other generations at the same age.<p>Comparing loneliness with millennials now does not normalize for the age gap and the difference in life stages.<p>For example, many millennials graduated in the 2008 financial crisis and had it much worse than GenZ which mostly graduated into a booming economy (US).
Sometimes I feel like the economy never recovered from the 2008 financial crisis. I got gut punched into the adulthood by the financial crisis and at that time there was a lot of talk about the japanese lost decade. My first thought back then was "so this is going to be our lost decade huh". I'm good now but I can't say I had a lot of fun in my 20s.
> <i>as Will Smith, a Gen Xer, famously groused, "Parents just don't understand!"</i><p>But luckily for him Chris Rock understood and didn't press charges.
> no one in history has been rejected more than Gen Z<p>Yeah, no.<p>> they took an intensive nine-month coding boot camp<p>They fell for a scam, I'll give them that.
Never in history have so many immigrated to the US. Way to go screwing over your own kids.<p><a href="https://cis.org/Report/ForeignBorn-Population-Grew-51-Million-Last-Two-Years" rel="nofollow">https://cis.org/Report/ForeignBorn-Population-Grew-51-Millio...</a>