Why the Future for Gens Z & Alpha Scares Me – Epi-3510
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I am the grandfather of a Gen Alpha and a GenZ grandson. My granddaughter is at the elder age for a Gen Alpha and my Grandson at the lower age of a GenZ. The take away from that is demographers be damned they are close in age and will both come up in their “prime” in the 30s.
I was talking with my wife last night about how I am sometimes hard on my grandson due to his very strong inclination to attempt to avoid anything that appears like work at all costs. Including the very easy chores that he is well paid to do on our place as part of his homeschool life here.
To be clear to those new to the show, they have wonderful parents, they don’t live here, we just have them during the work day to do homeschool with them.
I told my wife that I fully understand that I can’t hold my grandson to my life as a teen, for those that do not know I moved out on my own at 16 (two weeks before my 16h birthday) and I worked and paid bills etc. though my last two years of high school. This forces you to either grow up fast or end up homeless on the street. I chose the better of the two paths but have no desire to see anyone have to walk either of them.
That said, I can see what is coming very clearly. We may in fact get our own “roaring 20s”, one last hurrah or we may not, I don’t know. I do know that we have perhaps at best a decade to 12 years before the full reality of what we have done to ourselves hit. A true great depression 2.0. The dollar has been destroyed, it is literally already a smoldering hulk but enough still believe in it’s magic to drag it along for a while.
That is going to end in a bad way eventually. The BRICS alliance is growing daily and while mocked, ignored and called “not that big a deal” right now, every major shift has started that way all though recorded history. You think no one told King George a revolution was coming a decade before it happened. Arrogance is what truly comes before the fall.
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- What I think out basic next 20-30 years looks like, while I admit it is what I think, not what I know
- Why some level of what I think honestly must happen and why it could be far worse if war is part of it
- What it is going to take for young people who will be hitting their prime working years in the middle of it to succeed
- They will need to be very skilled specialists or very flexible generalists
- They will have to have a work ethic that makes a 1920s coal miner do a double take
- They will need an entrepreneur’s mind even if they never start a business
- They will need fiercely independent minds and still know when and how to “fake conformity”
- They will need to be ready to up and move if needed rapidly
- They will need to know how to do things, grow food, cook, fix things, etc.
- They will need to know the difference between education and school
- They will need to see to their own health mostly via diet
- Things that will be highly beneficial
- Being multi lingual as language software can only take us so far
- Having a good eye for opportunity
- Cognitive flexibility
- The ability to interpret data in a way that actually reflects reality
- Developing a hunger to be a life long learner
- Yes all these things apply now but they will become critical not just advantageous over the next decade
- Why I think those that make it though this time will do very well long term
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I thought AI and all was supposed to make life easier for everyone ? I thought we were all going to become more productive by using AI, so then everyone is just going to produce more ?
I get it though, I have tended to be a very negative thinker myself but I try to find reasons to not be negative. For the past few years since Biden has been in office I have been listening to podcasts about saints and church history because a lot of other stuff like news/conspiracy is too dark. I do still listen to that stuff but I cut back quite a bit
Tech youtubers are saying that the interest rates are effecting companies and with the high debt then it makes sense that it may stay that way
If you want to know what they are going to do about the debt, they are going to do the same thing they did the last time they went bankrupt. They are going to steal the money from the public to pay the debt. The debt is not the governments debt, it is the citizens debt.
In the next economic collapse, they will simply foreclose on all assets with debt attached that people cannot pay. They will then pool the assets and sell them off the same way they did during the 2008 housing crisis. They will also do some sort of bail in where they confiscate a certain amount of bank and brokerage accounts. Read the “Great Taking”
I think the Great Taking was the book that describes that they can take stuff that even has no debt. This was on Kunstlers show. It was something like the bank of international settlements and the Uniform Commercial code. It’s because there’s so many credit default swaps that to fulfill those, they would have to seize assets that has no debt and they changed the laws to allow it from the way I remember it as being described
https://kunstler.com/podcast/kunstlercast-390-david-rogers-webb-and-the-great-taking/
I think part of that laziness of the gen z and millennials out there is a collective sense of doom. They might not be educating themselves on the whys and hows, but the bleed-over of cynicism and darkness that their parents and grandfathers are experiencing is filtering down to them. If things are as bad as people say they are, what’s the purpose of having purpose? If the machine is broken and unfix-able, why spend the time and energy trying to make it work again? I’m not necessarily asking these questions, but the children of the west certainly are.
Add to that the intentional dumbing down of youth and a solidification of State power, you have a recipe for a legit 1984/Brave New World type of scenario. We take down statues not to hide the guilt of the past, but to remove knowledge of it altogether. If gen z kids don’t have a past, and the future is so dark that it becomes impossible to imagine, what else is there but an eternal present filled with endless distractions. Besides, as the kids say, AI will fix all my typos. We’re rending ourselves incompetent, unintelligent, and sooner or later, incapable of free action or thought.
But holy God in heaven do I hope I’m wrong.
Yea, a lot of my thoughts .. it can be so bad that you loose the incentive to work. At least if you realize the scam and propaganda we have been sold on then you know something of value.
Jack,
I agree with you that a work ethic is necessary.
I just want to leave this caveat here: “be careful who you are doing hard work for; if you don’t, you will be exhausted with nothing to show for it.”
“Quiet working” is a reaction to it.
However, the better solution is to be hard-working for the right vetted people.
Looking forward to the lazy people being pushed out of the market