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Screwing Gen Z is the New Growth Business Model
How the Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials are conspiring to destroy Gen Z’s lives
Gen Z — those born between 1997 and 2012 — has been fucked most of their lives. Gen Z is stressed out about their exams and their careers. The only thing Gen Z doesn’t seem to be so stressed about is buying a house.
But that’s only because house prices are so far out of whack that Gen Z’s become accustomed to the idea of not buying their own homes.
Gen Z is like Red in the movie The Shawshank Redemption. Red was incarcerated for 40 years in the Shawshank prison. Once Red got out, he realised he’d spent so long inside the system that he was no longer used to life on the outside.
Don’t worry if you’re Gen Z, and you have no idea what I’m talking about. Ask your parents. They’ve probably seen the film.
I was born in 1979, right at the tail-end of Gen X (1965–1980) so I’ve been around the sun enough to figure out what’s going on.
Every living generation that has come before Gen Z is conspiring to fuck Gen Z, some way or another.
In fact, there’s a veritable boom market in companies whose business model is designed to dash any hopes that Gen Z might have about the future, making sure…
