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Devil's advocate here...But isn't that all of us? We're all in the same fishbowl, why is the Gen Z experience more anxiety-based?

seydor 3y ago
cause they are at school and in their formative social experiences
jstarfish 3y ago
> why is the Gen Z experience more anxiety-based? Aside from being entitled and incompetent, they've brought domestic violence into the workplace to obfuscate this fact. They know it, and they live in fear of having what they do to others done to them. You see it in prison too-- the tension is palpable. Post-COVID, the number of bad-faith HR reports I've had to investigate has skyrocketed. People are trying to get exes fired for sexual harassment, bosses fired for criticizing them, colleagues fired for being abrasive...it's driving me up the fucking wall. I get people pulling Sam Altmans too, which is fun. I used to work with professionals. Now I do the dirty work of adult tweens.
mensetmanusman 3y ago
Nominal family structure is quite different and has changed rapidly in the past 50 years. Some family structures are much higher anxiety.
- reverius42 3y ago
  Which family structures “are” (cause? correlate with?) higher anxiety?
  - mensetmanusman 3y ago
    E.g. families that have normal checkins at dinner time are lower anxiety.
happymellon 3y ago
I don't think they are. I had to listen to similar comments about Millennials. It's just the current youngest group, who are the least experienced so will be the most anxious. You just grow out of it, and forget how shitty it was when you first entered the workforce.
- chiefalchemist 3y ago
  IDK, have you read "The Coddling of The American Mind"? Book or even just the article? Or even Michael Easter's "Comfort Crisis"? Each successive generation has had it easier and easier but... 1) Easy isn't how we evolved 2) The lack of adversity means some emotional muscles are underdeveloped https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod... https://eastermichael.com/book/ https://eastermichael.com/book/
  - happymellon 3y ago
    I'm not American, so no I have not read an article about why American children are being coddled. However it is a well known phenomen that the youngest generation gets picked on by those already in the workforce. Or are you saying that Gen X is still generally worthless compared to the older generations? The idea that Chris Rock was being a prick and mocking a group of people being unacceptable and rejected isn't any more surprising than comedians making racist or disabled jokes being rejected 30 years ago. There are plenty of actually funny people who don't need to do that.

seydor 3y ago

cause they are at school and in their formative social experiences

jstarfish 3y ago

> why is the Gen Z experience more anxiety-based? Aside from being entitled and incompetent, they've brought domestic violence into the workplace to obfuscate this fact. They know it, and they live in fear of having what they do to others done to them. You see it in prison too-- the tension is palpable. Post-COVID, the number of bad-faith HR reports I've had to investigate has skyrocketed. People are trying to get exes fired for sexual harassment, bosses fired for criticizing them, colleagues fired for being abrasive...it's driving me up the fucking wall. I get people pulling Sam Altmans too, which is fun. I used to work with professionals. Now I do the dirty work of adult tweens.

mensetmanusman 3y ago

Nominal family structure is quite different and has changed rapidly in the past 50 years. Some family structures are much higher anxiety.

reverius42 3y ago
Which family structures “are” (cause? correlate with?) higher anxiety?
- mensetmanusman 3y ago
  E.g. families that have normal checkins at dinner time are lower anxiety.

happymellon 3y ago

I don't think they are. I had to listen to similar comments about Millennials. It's just the current youngest group, who are the least experienced so will be the most anxious. You just grow out of it, and forget how shitty it was when you first entered the workforce.

chiefalchemist 3y ago
IDK, have you read "The Coddling of The American Mind"? Book or even just the article? Or even Michael Easter's "Comfort Crisis"? Each successive generation has had it easier and easier but... 1) Easy isn't how we evolved 2) The lack of adversity means some emotional muscles are underdeveloped https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod... https://eastermichael.com/book/ https://eastermichael.com/book/
- happymellon 3y ago
  I'm not American, so no I have not read an article about why American children are being coddled. However it is a well known phenomen that the youngest generation gets picked on by those already in the workforce. Or are you saying that Gen X is still generally worthless compared to the older generations? The idea that Chris Rock was being a prick and mocking a group of people being unacceptable and rejected isn't any more surprising than comedians making racist or disabled jokes being rejected 30 years ago. There are plenty of actually funny people who don't need to do that.