Ackshually the NBER video game labour force participation papers showed that despite young cohorts having lower labour participation rates, the younguns are happier than the older cohorts
affnn on
If you followed the Boomers and Gen Xers throughout their lives, you’d see that they’d always been more prone to committing crimes than Silents or Millennials. Crime spiked in the 60s through the early 90s, as first Boomers and then Gen Xers were in the higher-crime under-25 age range. [Later studies and hypotheses](https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/) came to blame environmental lead for this higher crime rate, which followed the lead-exposed generations even as they “should” have aged out of crime.
Anyway previously we had thought that depression and moodiness were associated with teenagers and now they’re associated with young adults, probably no connection with the previous paragraph.
JonF1 on
> First, older adults need to acknowledge this crisis. Seeing young people as worthy of empathy means understanding today’s challenges
This sub needs to recognize it.
People just post a lot of macro scale numbers like GDP growth or CPI to hand waive peoples misgivings on the economy.
When it comes to developmental milestones us in Gen Z are very behind.
comicsanscatastrophe on
I think Gen Z has legitimate grievances and the impact of social media, the housing crisis, climate change, and wealth inequality cannot be ignored. I consider myself extremely fortunate (on a training path to a high paying and respected profession, loving and supportive upper middle class family) after looking at how breathtakingly negative a lot of the discourse is online by them, and i honestly feel guilt at times. Hopefully we can chip away at the issues causing so much discontent.
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> young adults are more depressed
Ackshually the NBER video game labour force participation papers showed that despite young cohorts having lower labour participation rates, the younguns are happier than the older cohorts
If you followed the Boomers and Gen Xers throughout their lives, you’d see that they’d always been more prone to committing crimes than Silents or Millennials. Crime spiked in the 60s through the early 90s, as first Boomers and then Gen Xers were in the higher-crime under-25 age range. [Later studies and hypotheses](https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/) came to blame environmental lead for this higher crime rate, which followed the lead-exposed generations even as they “should” have aged out of crime.
Anyway previously we had thought that depression and moodiness were associated with teenagers and now they’re associated with young adults, probably no connection with the previous paragraph.
> First, older adults need to acknowledge this crisis. Seeing young people as worthy of empathy means understanding today’s challenges
This sub needs to recognize it.
People just post a lot of macro scale numbers like GDP growth or CPI to hand waive peoples misgivings on the economy.
When it comes to developmental milestones us in Gen Z are very behind.
I think Gen Z has legitimate grievances and the impact of social media, the housing crisis, climate change, and wealth inequality cannot be ignored. I consider myself extremely fortunate (on a training path to a high paying and respected profession, loving and supportive upper middle class family) after looking at how breathtakingly negative a lot of the discourse is online by them, and i honestly feel guilt at times. Hopefully we can chip away at the issues causing so much discontent.