Idiocracy, here we come.
I’ve seen this story before. Seems the kids didn’t like it then either.
And you can tell when you interact with them.
How about instead of shitting on the generations that follow, you help them out instead?
This is a bunch of “old man yells at cloud” horse shit.
Right. No. Sorry. I’ve been called “boomer” one too many times for simply politely disagreeing with them. I’m done being nice.
Ok boomer
Okay loser.
Aww, did the little pee pants get their fee fees hurt?
Okay bud. Blocked.
This all reads as speculation to me.
Thanks for sharing.
Don’t forget more misogynistic and more anti-social.
And probably homophobic
Stop this bullshit of old gen vs new gen.
100%
I’m Gen X and starting to see a lot of the boomer “uphill both ways to school in the snow with no shoes” bullshit from Gen X. STFU you asshats. My generation simultaneously says it had the greatest time and then turns around and whines about whatever manufactured hardship they come up with when talking about outher gens.
Yeah, we DID and DO have the best of both pre- and post-tech worlds, we arguably had the last shot at the traditional school, college, walk-in-your-resumee career, then buy a home, and the generational motto is “fuck you” if anyone even remembers us, but siddown. Don’t turn into our parents, you assholes.
Millennials are already doing the same thing. Suffering Olympics about how they have had it worse than anyone else but at the same time are the best generation ever produced. FFS. We are all on this planet together, we really should work on improving it for everyone, rather than trying to tear each other apart of perceived slights.
I’d argue that the Millennials did have it bad. They got told they’d have the traditional path, then got shat on by boomers constantly telling them it was their fault for not succeeding because “avocado toast” and “Starbuck’s coffee”. Meanwhile the boomers kept yanking the rug out from under eveyone with boom-bust recessions while saying “oh, that just happens every “x” years” while pillaging the economy by deregulating and consolidating. The milennials got lied to, hard. Generations after them had the “benefit” of knowing they were already fucked.
The millennials did/do have it bad, but more worryingly they’re only the first to have it worse than their parent generation.
Gen Z have lived through almost as much, and have plenty more coming.
Gen Alpha might be the last generation to experience the weather patterns that built the current world order.
Every generation has it’s own problems. I am sure Millennials think they had it bad until you realized Silent Generation had WWII, Boomers had Vietnam, Gen X had Iraq, it goes on and on. And yes, there is certainly a problem with society in general that has allowed for the rise of rampant consumerism following the 1950’s and hasn’t stopped. Millennial’s didn’t get lied to, they decided to act like their parents and not care about fighting a system that doesn’t care about them. Then they had children that care even less.
The current post-covid slump is worse than the Great Depression, and has similarly lead to wars and deaths comparable to WW2 combat casualties (not holocaust/pogrom level cleansing yet, although Israel, China and US/ICE have made some respectable efforts).
Vietnam was 20 years long, but the Ukraine war is already comparable in number of casualties.
Gen X Iraq is comparable to the war in Afghanistan.
But I’ll give the Greatest Generation some leeway, the Spanish Influenza was much deadlier than Covid, and they also had to live through the two world wars. That’s comparable to the Millennial experience (especially if we include HIV/AIDS pandemic), and we don’t yet know if the Millennials will experience a similar subsequent rise in life quality and wealth accumulation.
Iraq directly affected millennials as well, by the by.
So did Vietnam. Not sure what your point is other then reinforcing mine.
No, I mean millennials fought in Iraq.
I will when they will.
Damn OP, you need help
LOL OP really wants to fight in the comments.
LOL OP is simply defending the point. Grow up.
No, you’re not. You’re giving quippy little one sentence replies and accusing anyone that disagrees with you of not reading the article.
Why bother going deeper when all I’m met with is bullshit excuses and hand-waving the accountability of an entire generation.
It’s all someone else’s fault. It always is. Therefore it’s pointless to bother with anything more.
This really starts to sound like “Mommy didn’t show me any love if I got a B+” kind of behaviour…
That’s pretty specific… care to share? This is a safe space.
Always deflect, never correct. Definetly at least one abusive parent. What they did to you wasn’t right OK? Young people have no responsibility, stop blaming yourself for what happened. Start loving your inner child so you can love others as well, peace
I don’t think you’re qualified to make such an assessment, kiddo- you need to finish high school before it can get a therapy degree.
But best of luck to ya. Take responsibility for your shit some day. It’s cathartic.
Oh. And you’re blocked. So don’t waste your time responding.
there is a big argument on this reporting to be nonesense.
But if it has any truth to it, we should see it as previous generation failing on gen z, not them being dumb.
zero accountability. I swear, it’s always someone else’s fault. lol.
Gen Z did nothing but grow up in the world made for them. Zero accountability indeed.
As did Gen X and millennials. Yet they don’t seem to have this built-in excuse to do no wrong.
Every generation seems to have the same excuse of it ‘not being their fault’, by and large they are accurate. Millennials didn’t cause the Great Recession, they lived through it. Gen Z didn’t cause COVID, they lived through it.
Most of kids gets a smartphone before their teens and it’s not like they bought it for themselves… How can you hold a 12 years old accountable?
GenZ is like a giant, unaware focus group for a product (the smartphone/social media environment) that has been beta-tested after release. Only now, as a society, we’re starting to adjust to it
What’s funny is, Gen X, and millennials seems to have no excuses for the mistakes they made.
Imagine that.
- That’s the same for every generation, isn’t it? Have you ever heard a boomer recognize a mistake? And I’m not even going to mention GenX as they’re the least relevant generation of all time.
- You’re using the Donald Trump’s “strategy of avoiding my question with disdain for the opposite”: do you seriously think a 12 years old (or younger) can be held accountable if you give them a highly addictive, brain-rotting, paranoia machine?
Whatever you say kid.
Accountability where it belongs. You dont blame someone for not walking after shooting them in a leg, unless you would be disingenous asshole.
Fucking hilarious.
The pandemic is likely responsible for a lot of it, even though people don’t want to talk about it. Covid is proven to reduce IQ, every infection is damaging the brian and the key finding is that people aren’t aware its happened to them.
Are you still bright, BrightCandle?
Sometimes their brian hurts
The teachers I talked to told me children who had remote classes for a year were all behind both mentally and emotionally, not even because of infection, just because they basically skipped a year of life.
They had a year to nonstop melt their brains on social media.
That’s most likely more the reason than the virus itself.
poor brian
He’s not the messiah.
He’s a very naughty boy!
“Author” is a Senior News Editor
Doesn’t mention their sources or anything related to the study per se, just a bunch of “this guy said…”
I’ve seen you edited the post for the sources, good job.
I just wanted to point out that I don’t disagree with the article, I think it’s just poorly written: if you talk about “intelligence” you have to write “intelligently” otherwise it’s just old man yelling at cloud type of content.Okay.
Yeah this is made up nonsense mate
Enjoy mate.
If you use IQ as a valid measure of intelligence which there is copious amounts of data to suggest it is not beyond high school grades.
Did you read the article, or just commenting on the headline like everyone does nowadays? Be honest.
I’ll be interested to see if the trend continues with alpha.
I’ve no doubt it will, but I hope it doesn’t.
Isn’t Gen Z also really conservative?
I don’t think so. Not from what I’ve seen. .
