The Intelligence: The kids are alright, turns out
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
When you look around the world, and at a wider set of measures, Generation Z are far better off than the popular narrative would have you believe. We examine what India’s push to soup up its nukes means for the global arms race (09:30). And even as global fertility rates fall, sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing a relative baby boom (17:11).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host |
| 0:14.1 | Ora Ogunbi. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:19.5 | shaping your world. India's first test of a new missile is not just news for the nuclear nerds. |
| 0:29.0 | It's evidence of a new geopolitics in which India is getting worried about China's power and nuclear weapons are much more prominent. |
| 0:39.0 | And, fertility rates are actually falling across the world, but in sub-Saharan Africa not fast enough. |
| 0:47.0 | What will it take to close the gap? First up there, though, |
| 1:03.0 | in the... |
| 1:07.0 | In the rich world, |
| 1:11.0 | in the rich world, there are at least 250 million people born between 1997 and 2012 |
| 1:18.8 | including myself well just there's a lot of fluff out there about Gen Z. |
| 1:26.0 | They say we're all lazy and we don't want to work anymore. |
| 1:29.0 | They say we're too woke, well, what's wrong with that? |
| 1:32.0 | They say we spend all our time on screens and we don't read books, blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:37.0 | Yet different generations also display deeper differences in their personalities, in part because of the economic context in which they grew up. |
| 1:46.0 | millennials came of working age during a global financial crisis, whilst baby boomers benefited from the boom caused by the golden age of capitalism. |
| 1:57.0 | Many argue that Gen Z is defined by its anxiety. |
| 2:02.0 | We're more likely to be depressed or say that we were assigned the |
| 2:05.4 | wrong sex at birth. Also less likely to drink, to have sex, or be in a relationship. |
| 2:11.9 | But when it comes to young people's financing... have sex or be in a relationship. |
| 2:13.0 | But when it comes to young people's finances, |
| 2:16.1 | this generation might actually be the goat. |
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