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editor-in-chief. This is FP Live.

So today's discussion should come with a giant disclaimer. We're going to make some generalizations.

And that's because we are talking about an entire generation, Gen Z. Zomers, as they are known, are between 13 and 28 years old,

and they're coming of age at a particularly difficult time.

They've already lived through a global financial crisis, a historic pandemic, and several wars.

And now, many of them confront a job market in which they might be competing with AI for entry-level jobs.

According to a recent Harvard University poll, 40% of Americans aged under 30 admit that they are barely getting by financially.

Fewer than one in five trust the federal

government to do the right thing, and less than 15% believe the country is headed in the right

direction. In other words, this is a really disillusioned generation. So today, I wanted to bring

someone on who can help me understand Gen Z a bit more,

and also how their views of America might inform their views of the world at large. It's also

notable that there's a bit of an echo here in how Trump sees the world, the idea that America is

done fighting wars abroad

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