Does Gen Z have it worse?

[coolcow1289]

I'm curious to hear the input from SS users of different generations.

I'm early Gen Z and I feel things are bad now in a way they've never been before. I feel like everything got bad too early for me to be settled in to weather it (own a home, have a family etc), but too late for me to be able to easily adapt and overcome it. Covid came around right when I left HS and everything has been Hell ever since.

We have to deal with a destroyed economy, digital media, loneliness epidemic, dating apps, collapsed birth rate, unaffordable housing, inflation, and now no jobs due to AI.

Maybe this is just me rationalizing why my life sucks. Other people in my generation seem to be fine. I'm happy to hear other perspectives.

 

[franos666]

It depends what things you are comparing but overall our mental health is worse than our parents and grandparents and I think it's most important thing in life

 

[itsgone2]

We have to deal with a destroyed economy, digital media, loneliness epidemic, dating apps, collapsed birth rate, unaffordable housing, inflation, and now no jobs due to AI.

You are correct. Completely agree. Politicians on both sides stood around and watched it all happen. Maybe even encouraged it. I'm sorry. Your generation should want to tear it all down.

It simply wasn't like this before but in hindsight it was slowly building. Coming on. And now it's here. It's coming for everyone but you're getting hit first.

 

[WalmartSoap]

Late Gen Z here, I feel the exact same way :c
For us, COVID took away valuable time for building social skills (middle-high school), and you can feel it. In new situations, the people around me just.. can't hold a conversation. I know we're chalked up to be these brainrotted toddlers with the whole "Gen Z stare" BS, but it's true, at least in part. Talking to anyone my age is like talking to a brick wall, nevermind getting to know them.

"Hanging out" feels like a thing of the past. Malls and public places around us are dying, it feels like you really need a niche (a sport, a specific hobby) to find people out in the wild. And dating culture sucks ass. There's none of that "you'll find the right guy, just get out there!" anymore. People don't talk unless it's over the hottest social media platform, all of which I refuse to download.

Maybe we don't have it the WORST in all of history, but we sure aren't well off. At least socially so.

 

[hello kitty]

yes next question

 

[astaroth81]

We live in a homeostatic, code-driven universe. A multi-threaded computer simulation to put it bluntly.

Events are optimized algorithmic probabilities rather than random happenstance.

The balance of human struggle and joy remains constant across all ages.

[Total Human Experience] = [Challenge/Entropy] + [Joy/Homeostasis]

Essentially, we are localized nodes processing variables within a self-correcting system that always balances its ledger.

Therefore today we deal with the stressors of social media and difficulty with socializing, yesterday it was the Great Depression, World Wars, Black Death, famine etc.

 

[Pluto]