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🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 159 minutes
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Gen Z is mad, very mad, actually, and it is manifesting itself on social media, among other places. There seems to be a general frustration with the country at large, specifically wages, housing, tuition costs, the dating market, and the list goes on. But here is the question: do they have a point?
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Links from today's ep:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-u-s-home-price-growth-over-50-years/
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/
https://medium.com/hello-love/study-predicts-45-of-women-will-be-single-by-2030-1fbc99bad6a8
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/09/14/views-of-divorce-and-open-marriages/
https://nypost.com/2023/04/25/employers-reveal-why-gen-z-is-hardest-generation-to-work-with/
https://www.paychex.com/articles/employee-benefits/employee-benefits-a-company-must-provide
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/four_reasons_not_to_raise_the_minimum_wage.pdf
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/45-percent-women-are-expected-to-be-single-and-childless-by-2030
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0:00.0 | All right. So nothing has been easier than dunking on some of the comments that you see from Gen Z on social media, from everything from complaining about the hours they have to work to the wages that they get to tuition costs. |
0:16.8 | It really has. Some of the reactions that have come up have been really easy to make fun of. |
0:21.4 | I know I've done it, but, and I'm going to show you a couple where I've done it. |
0:26.7 | But I had somebody came out and they said, you know what, Nick, I get it. |
0:29.8 | I get it. |
0:30.3 | You brought up a good point. |
0:31.2 | They were being a little bit ridiculous. Don't you think this might be an opportunity to explain to somebody why something is operating the way it is and maybe offer them a different perspective rather than the one that they've gotten from like AOC and Elizabeth Warren constantly? |
0:46.5 | And you know what? |
0:47.9 | Yeah, they're right. |
0:48.9 | They're right. |
0:49.5 | It's easy to dunk. |
0:50.8 | But unfortunately, a lot of times when you make the whole message dunking on someone saying something stupid, |
0:55.7 | you actually drive them further and further in the opposite direction of really where they need to go. |
0:59.9 | And so this whole episode is going to be dedicated toward really two things. |
1:04.0 | The first one is asking the question, regardless of how it might appear on social media, |
1:08.5 | does Gen C have a point about a lot of the things |
1:12.3 | that they're complaining about? And two, if they do have a point, which, spoiler alert, |
1:18.0 | I kind of think on some of these things they actually do, the more you dive into the data, |
1:21.8 | the real question is, is that, okay, if they're mad, who should they be mad at? And that is the question that we're going to answer here. |
1:29.0 | And this one is critical, especially as we go into the holidays. |
1:32.0 | There's going to be a lot of kids coming back from college. |
1:34.1 | There's going to be a lot of time back at home. |
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