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OK Zoomer: Why I’ll begrudgingly be kind to the beleaguered Gen Z
As the young face rising despair, AI job cuts and muddled world politics, we need to show them solidarity
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You’d have to have your head buried in the sand not to be at least a bit worried about the labour market wildcard Gen Zs must navigate ,says the writer.
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How many conferences I must have sat through in the early 2010s with gritted teeth, listening to grizzled pundits moan about the fecklessness of my generation – the avocado-toast gorging, not-saving-for-a-home, travel-too-much strawberry millennials who think only about themselves.
If only we would knuckle down and find the resilience that older generations had to be successful, they would say, inviting guffaws and applause in agreement.
