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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many older people crap all this generation,  but they’ve really been dealt a bad hand by their elders.

They’ve grown up immersed in technology, required to use it for almost everything, but the devices that we invented and bought for them are horribly addictive and bad for their attention spans.

They’re being told they must learn how to use AI to get a job, to survive, whether they think it’s a good thing or not, but also that they shouldn’t be using it for schoolwork.

They’ve watched one octogenarian after another make a complete mockery of every single one of our institutions.

Their anxious parents, caught up in the nonstop online posturing, have been using their accomplishments to fill their own endless needs for validation.

I could go on and on… [/quote]

I agree with this. This generation has been dealt a bad hand. All the technology we've been feeding them in their formative years - whether chromebooks or phones - has killed natural attention spans. We tell them AI is terrible, but every employer now requires you know how to use AI - for efficiency. So basically for Gen Z, we've been telling them they are idiots because of their use of tech, social media, and AI. And they'd be much smarter if they didn't use it. But on the other hand, every company demands expertise in AI and social media and tech for new hires.

Gen Z is screwed no matter how you look at it. The Jane Austen and Thomas Pynchon reading kids aren't getting hired. And the AI and social media butterflies have the attention span of a gnat and can't do serious work on their own. And meanwhile, the future looks very difficult for most 20 year olds in America.

It's a tough position for most of Gen Z. Millennials, Gen X, and boomers have no clue what young people are dealing with to even get their foot in the door. The world is changing very fast. And I'm not surprised at all that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was getting booed and jeered when he did a commencement speech. Silicon Valley is wrecking life for Gen Z. [/quote]

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