What matters to Generation Z? What does life hold for Generation Alpha? - Misc and chat

Yeh true gen z is lost in my opinion. I'm one of Gen Z and I feel lost at times just with the way the world is it's a major let down at times trying not to get too down about the world but it sucks at times. 

I'm up there with your daughter, financial issues is a problem, housing is scary expensive even when you're in a good job. It's annoying because I studied to get my degree, got in to debt for my education, eventually got my job and I still couldn't afford a place of my own. But it's not just buying a house, everything is unaffordable in this day and age, it's insane how we're meant to survive.

This is what matters to me most, or really is what concerns me most, surviving this modern world when it feels like the government and everything is working against you.

There are, of course, cultural norms in specific countries which must be respected.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Knowing how society operates, they'll probably raise the Age of Consent to 30; yet still allow Little Girls to dress, and act, like Ladies of the Night.

It'll be more of a Trade War; US and China say to each other, "Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours!"

The whole thing about Russia launching Nukes could be a Red Herring. Newspeak, to get our undies in a twist.

It's about following 'The Script' - where the Left accumulate wealth, while the Right call for Revolution.

I'm part of Gen Z and the thing that worries me is people and they're lack of care and compassion for societies most vulnerable issues. I honestly don't blame the government I blame the people of this country and around the world who are the ones that allow the government to screw us over whilst claiming they don't agree with it yet they do nothing to stop it and even fuel it by continuing to vote for them!! (Cough ahem! 'labour party'). I rest my case! At least I didn't vote for a party that wants to take money from disabled people. My conscience is clear!

I fall in to the Generation Z category and honestly for me everything is a huge worry regarding the future, if we have one. Our children are getting screwed over by those in charge, with poor education, and poor economic opportunity, and on top of that, we adults have to deal with idiots who won’t do anything about the rising costs of everything and are cutting disabilities for those who really need them. Overseas is an absolute mess, not WW3 yet, but it’s not pretty over there.

There’s so much to worry about right now and it’s unsettling. I wouldn’t be bringing any kids into this mess. I work every now and then at a children’s nursery and all the while I feel so sorry for them because what sort of a world are they growing up in. It’s awful.

Those must have been frightening times to be alive. My nan now in her 90s recalls some of WW2, which equally sounded horrific to endure. It's sad that people on this world can't just put their differences aside and get on together, we are here such a short time really, it would be so much better if all the fighting just stopped.

I'd not long had my first child when Regan and Thatcher started ramping up nuclear weapons and the threat of WW3 felt very real. I was only a few months old when the Cuban missile crisis happened, my parents wondered if we'd make it as far as my first birthday.

I also remember all the bomb threats and bombings from the IRA, going to London to do xmas shopping always felt like a calculated risk.

I was born in 1962 so I'm technically a boomer, but those a bit older than me had scooped everything up by the time I was in need of council housing or anyting like that, I feel I've had the worst of all worlds for my age, no coucil housing left, jobs disapearing and never feeling able to get on the front foot, whilst many of my peers seemed to start off on the front foot, I feel like I missed everything by a couple of years.

Some of us have been concerned about the planet for over 40 years and have tried with varying amounts of sucess and failure to be good earthlings. Some of the sucesses have been saving whales, thier populations are rising now and hunting them is frowned upon internationally which was far from the case in the early 1980's. THe holes in the ozone layer are better than they were due to the phasing out of CFC's used in refridgeration. A lot has been done to better the lives of animals in captivity, and in farming. People are much more aware of environmental issues now and it's not a fringe subject anymore. There have been false starts like when the advice was to switch to diesel from petrol, until it was found that that was just as bad or worse, lots of people got stuck with car's they could afford to replace. Lead in petrol is a thing of the past as are the great smogs we used to get, swapping coal fires for gas powered central heating has been a bit swings and roundabouts.

It does worry me that there are still people who don't care and are happy to wreck the planet even more for the sake of profit, that they're to stupid to understand even the basics of the science behind it and scoff at those of us who do and are rightly concerned.

The threat of WW3 has affected quite a few generations, I can remember adverts in the 80’s telling us what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. School trips were not allowed if it was to a City as there was a constant threat from the IRA. My parents watched the Cuban Missile Crisis unfold in 1962. There unfortunately always seems to be conflict somewhere in the world.

I'm part of Gen Z and for me, the thing that worries me most is surviving the modern climate. The cost of living is high and even though I work I can hardly afford my bills and to run my car. I'm lucky that I still live at home with my parents, but, I know this can't be forever. My sister is in the same boat.

The threat of WW3 is always there too.

The future is worrying

I’m was born in the later 60’s I’m slightly outside the ‘boomer’ bracket. My eldest son was born in 1997, he does  feel angry with the boomer and my generation. His partner seems to feel the same, they think the previous generations bought all the houses cheaply and have  things like pensions that they will never achieve. It seems a personal gripe that there is no houses left for them to buy and I’m to blame.

A lot of it is most probably frustration as they pay a lot in rent, probably more than a mortgage.

They do care about the planet and don’t want to bring a child into it, they would rather adopt a child. 

So true. 

After seeing little ones glued to their mum's iPhones I predict a generation of short sightedness.

I understand employers talk about upskilling their multi generational employees in an AI driven society. I hope that means making purposeful alliances across the generations. 

ArchaeC said:

. We ‘should’ be committed, competitive and self-sufficient. 

Well, "committed" can be taken to mean two things, ha ha!

 I'm more Gen X - Resourceful, logical and good problem solver. Although I think that could be attributed to most autistic people?

I don't think a lot of us had the same experiences as those born in the mid to late 1950's either, as you say Thatcher came into power and eveything changed. I'm probably more generation x too, I in my early teens when punk exploded onto the music scene and "alternative" comedy came along, how strange to think it was once Ok to racially abuse people, denigrate women and the disabled in the name of comedy?

I think the other thing with these pigeon holes is the assumption that we all had an equal playing field, when we didn't, if you were poor, working class, non white, female or really anything other than a middle class white male, then the field didn't feel level at all.

I'm a bit confused by this post.  

It is surely a good thing that a 16yr old is aware that financial security may be a problem for her generation.  Doesn't it mean that she's aware of what is going on in the country, and how precarious things are?  

I argued with someone last week that said Trump will cause WW3.  I said he wont because war is bad for business.  Climate change is happening, but the harsh reality that we've not got enough homes is even more pressing.  Nobody fancies living on the pavement (and being arrested for vagrancy) or paying the rents that are being charged now for all eternity. 

We seem to have got side-tracked into this discussion about labelling generations, when the real issue ought to be how are we looking to provide for the needs of our citizens.   All 68m of us and rising.  

Of course your daughter is correct.  More so for this & the next generation than ever before - because that notion of a caring society where everyone looks out for one another is fast evaporating, and in years to come, I think it wont exist at all, sorry to say.