Generational Divides with Nick Gillespie

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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How big is the divide between different age groups? In this inaugural episode of a new Open to Debate series, “Generational Divides,” Reason’s editor-at-large Nick Gillespie brings together a Baby Boomer, a Gen X-er, and a Gen Z-er to discuss Social Security benefits and how they’ll affect future generations, homeownership, and 1950s nostalgia, where they examine the cultural and economic shifts occurring around intergenerational wealth and how each generation views money, opportunity, and the American Dream. Our Guests: For Baby Boomers: Joe Nocera, Deputy Managing Editor at The Free Press For Gen X: Stacey Vanek Smith, Journalist and Reporter; Co-host of "Everybody's Business" at Bloomberg Business For Gen Z: Kyla Scanlon, Financial Content Creator, Economic Commentator and Author of "In This Economy?" Nick Gillespie, Editor-at-Large at Reason, is the guest moderator. Visit our Substack to watch more insightful debates and subscribe to our newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.7	pretty exciting I want to tell you about. It's a series of episodes that we are calling generational
0:37.3	divides,
0:38.0	and it's hosted by my friend and colleague Nick Gillespie. In this series, we are drawing the debate
0:43.0	map according to age, but the fault lines aren't necessarily where you would expect.
0:47.8	Nick Gillespie is the host. He is the editor at large over at Region Magazine, and honestly,
0:51.5	he is the perfect person to stir this pot. Today's conversation is about money and wealth, and it goes beyond the great wealth transfer,
0:58.5	gets into some really interesting territory. Nick, it's all yours. Take it away.
1:02.4	This is open to debate. I'm Nick Gillespie, and today we're doing something a little bit
1:06.6	different. We have gathered three different distinct generations, a boomer, a zoomer, and a Gen Xer,
1:14.0	to see where some of the dividing lines fall in today's discussions of politics, culture,
1:19.5	economics. This conversation is part of a new series on generational divides, and it's made
1:24.8	possible by a generous grant from the Liberty Ears Foundation.
1:28.7	The topic up for discussion today is one of the most critical tethers between generations,
1:34.3	one that gets a lot of play on TikTok with younger generations raging at older ones,
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