Gen Z is Failing Before We Even Started... And It's Our Fault 

The only reason I’m mostly stress free as a Gen Z guy is growing up on the edge of no phones/internet then everything being done online from school to socially quickly. Growing up fast as well, seeing divorce, forced to make $ for rent as a teen, not always fun, got into trouble, but I was forced to be extremely social. Only advice I can give is go try, don’t let anxiety, sadness, or embarrassment beat you down, think of it as working out a social muscle. Best of luck 🍀

your saying the truth everyone is afraid of

OPTIMISM DIED!!! WHERE IS IT 😭 I feel so lonely being the only optimistic person i know. I love this video. Thank you for your voice.

dude you said EXACTLY what ive been feeling! i'm 22 and i am so sad about the state of our generation. We need some kind of purpose and have the ability to get up when knocked down. I do truly believe that if we just TRY and stop crying and cribbing about everything, we can make insane progress. When we turn 25, our neuroplasticity drops significantly. It gets REALLY HARD to learn new things and be mentally adaptive and flexible. we cant cross that thresh hold with the only things that we learnt and practiced our whole life being fucking social media and digital garbage. seriously.

Im 39. I started out in the tail end of the good times. Of course now im seeing the absolute disgrace you guys are faced with. If I wasn’t obsessed with the future when I was younger, I would be broke and unable to succeed just like you guys. There’s so much misery all around me, I could cry.

i have been adicted to the internet and computers since 10 it blew me away it was like crack and this was befour social media. got social fobia and im 36 now

I gave up in this world, we’re all sentenced to death by our stupid parents, society doesn’t care about young men, i don’t even bother looking at women anymore because they talk to ten other guys and i just can’t take this fake status game we’re playing. Life is a scam.

Very well articulated points, with zero toxicity and with zero hatred towards women. Keep up the good work. I believe you will have a great future as a professional RU-vidr / content creator, so long as you stay consistent with your professional, non-aggressive attitude, and as long as you post videos regularly.

When it comes to forging relationships and friendships, u can’t win if you don’t actively play the game.

As a gen zer, I'm always stressed out. Dealing with weight problems, my whole family having to get jobs in order to pay all of our bills on time under one roof. This video could not be more true. 👍🏽

Good video. As a Gen X guy who got absolutely screwed by the Boomers, I have a lot of sympathy. But I would add that once I stopped being jealous of them, started living my life, instead of trying to have what they had or what they TOLD me I should have... my life got a lot better. Develop hobbies. Enjoy your life. And stop competing to have more than the people you see online. Because half the time, those people are lying through their teeth.

I think your point about social cohesion is on point. In fact, because of this lack of social interaction I think this makes civil uprising, protest, or some form of revolt/revolution even LESS likely going forward; people will lose the memory of what it's like to partake in these cyclically necessary refresh buttons that societies have constantly pushed to move our civilizational needles forward.

I'm a Millenial and I feel this way ha ha.

I’m definitely trying to work on the human interaction part. I developed a sense in my teen years that no one cared about meeting or knowing me. I know that’s not true, but it has been hard to overcome that and get involved with others. You are spot on about this being our biggest issue, because it is the biggest predictor of longevity (quality friends = quality mind and life)

There's no other solution than letting things rot and rebuilding from scratch like the mouse utopia experiment. Everything has an expiration date including empires which last an average of 250 years

Great analysis bro!

i am a 17 year old male with a disability from belgium, i havent been to school in a very long time because teachers at school (i go to a school for people with disabilities) are abusing and profiting from us kids by making us do labor and calling it 'preparing for the future' and absolutely providing little to no education for us childeren instead playing board games and drawing as if we were little todlers. I dont know how it is my fault for being in this situation when i tried a bunch of "private teachers" and "personal assistants" for homeschool education, all of them were lazy and didnt wanna work or little work and lying to the directors of the schools. now i am sitting here at home isolating myself because i dont go to school and im at a point in my life where i cant handle talking to people anymore eventhough im considerd 'good looking' and 'very kind' i didnt get the help i needed and now i pay the price of this world where boomers and millenials just do whatever they please however not all people are bad ive met a lot of good people but they cant handle the world themselfs

The Boomers came in at the point where "Good Times Make Weak Men".

my Boomer dad was poor growing up

"living suicide" is called languishing. Treading water, just to try to not drown, but not swimming anywhere good.

As an introvert, I don't need friends but I do talk to people in the flesh.

Bruh... ok. Older Millennial (b 1984) here. Yep about to hit 40. It's not you guys fault. It's not the fault of your parents or previous generations even up to boomers. It's the fault of large corporations and the laws that support their ability to steer government policy. The insane pursuit of money is the cause of most of this shit once you strip back the layers and understand the reality. It's extremely hard to articulate something so huge and complex, so instead of trying, all I can suggest is live a while longer and see for yourself. I'll put it another way. You don't know what you don't know. In your 20's, EVERYTHING you know, EVERYTHING you believe in - you learned from other people. Be it parents, teachers, college professors, employers, it doesn't matter. They were old and wise, and you were young and dumb. That was hardwired into your young self. To trust those who had gone before and throughout your childhood and formative years that all held true, your needs were met, you were sheltered and had no real life concerns so why would you not believe everything you learned from the people in your environment? Then you arrived at the brutal reality of adulthood and weren't prepared. Most of us aren't when we get here. Suddenly inconsistencies appear in what you were taught and what you are seeing unfold when doing it for yourself. And it just keeps happening. And slowly you learn "No its not like x, but I get why you'd explain it this way to a kid". Years go by and that leads into the realization of "I get why you'd explain it to a lay person like this", then it goes deeper, you realize that legal bodies, governing entities, lawmakers, policymakers, Scientific Institutions, universities, etc etc EVERYTHING, everything you were taught and everything you believed... is just... a group of people who came together and agreed on x. a group of people no different than you or me. For every good, decent honest person on this planet you'll meet 100 corrupt and selfish ones, and they are in every single area of society with their own goals and ambitions and desires that are the true driving force of whatever they're doing. Your trust in these things is then shattered. You discover that pretty much every part of society is driven by a small handful of people who are only working for themselves, and the constant passing of batshit laws that help nobody except those who already have it all makes more sense. And those old Gen Xers you used to laugh at on facebook with "School of Life" in their bio instead of some prestigious college make more sense too. You don't know what you don't know, only life can teach it to you, and only you can interpret it. The harsh reality - Particularly if you're male - is this: You are on your own. But this is powerful. A good life isn't free, but nobody can stop you having it if you have the willpower and determination.

A good life for you is at a cost of a horrible life for someone else. That’s reality. A good life isn’t free. This reality is hell for logical people

Okay, this is weird. When I go out to bars, all I see is 15-25yos hanging out together. They talk shite a lot, because they don't know better, because they're kids - but they definitely talk among each otther. Is it a US thing maybe?

I believe that there is hope for us, perseverance AND intelligence provide us a chance to make our world promising once again

Life is suffering yes but you can also try and make it fun.

"Clearly it's not our fault" 😂😂😂

Interesting advice. Thank you for the commentary

Religion makes a huge comeback every three generations, and it makes me hopeful

I think Gen X had it worst then Gen Z. Gen X had poor job perspectives, no support and no communication from their boomers parents. We were right after the generation that kept everything for themselves.

I think you would like fear and loathing in Las Vegas which talks about similar issues such as broken American dream and hedonistic life style of a jaded person. I think we are experiencing that right now in our own way for gen z but I think we will pull through if we do something about it.

I am a millennial, but I hope you can achieve your objective. Even among my generation, I have so many peers who are so apathetic to life because they just accept their lot in life instead of striving to reach their potential, and I don't want that for future generations...

We are the generation that will destroy itself in order to recreate a new way of life, that’s how I see it

Well spoken bro. The key is to never give up even if you slow down. Keep trying and find something worth pursuing

He’s good looking!.!.

What if humans had a 60-year lifespan(even with medical advances)? While breeding only works once on our 19th birthdays. And every Gen was born 20-years apart(but only on Jan. 1st at the start of an even-number decade)? Like Millennials in the year 1980. And Gen Zs in the year 2000. While everyone each Gen had 1-3 siblings in litters. Babies can already walk, talk, and remember stuff. And seniors dying naturally on their 60th birthdays. How'd the world have looked like? How'd history have played out? What would've changed about our lives like childhoods, birthdays, schools, celebrities, inventions, and pop-cultures? And how'd you have liked like that from your altered memories, experiences, and POVs? Imagine living in that parallel universe.

Im using youtube, Netflix etc constantly as to num, turn off my normal instincts, desires. My dad took me to a golf court restaurant, then greenhouse, and it all gave me extrema sadness, away from my phone, thoughts hit me of a girl who asked me to have a kid with her, 3 yrs ago.

Great video. True

Amazing stuff. Please go deeper in future, u sure have ability, crazy so few views.

they are addictive because we broke as heck and the only time we are not thinking about are technolagy is when we are at a event or hanging out with friends

Very well said. In my opinion, social media is the worst creation of recent times. Life was a lot simpler before the internet and in general I think people were generally happier. It's ironic that technology should make life easier, in theory, but has had the opposite effect in reality. Good luck, success comes from determination, resilience and hard work. Sadly gen Z only face that when released out into the real world.

This is not the absolute fault of current Gen Z of what has been occuring, but a domino effect from greed and power and that is going to reset itself sooner or later. Whether through warfare and/or economic transitioning, new minds needed to fix this mess that has been "kicking the can down the road" of societal problems for decades. Hang in there, Ashton. Our time to "take over" and fix it accordingly, is coming.

The problem is that the single top tier male are a myth now. Feminist movement has just about eliminated that entire class of men. Back in the 1960s you easily had the top tier single men women could find and date. Today women have taken over so many high level job positions that there are no single available high end men. They do not exist. So on dating apps you have 10/10 women, 5/10 and 1/10 but on dating apps you do not have 10/10 men. You only have 5/10 to 1/10. The 10/10 men on dating apps are 100% scammers. Here is why: In the past a medical School graduated 200 male medical students, 50 married men and 150 single new male doctors. Now today they are mostly women so they graduate 50 married male medical students and 150 single female medical students. Anyone who can do math and think realizes what this means, that means that single women out there can no longer hope to find a boyfriend or husband who is a doctor, you have no hope at all in doing that. This is why, when I was in medical school it was about 60% female, 90% of the men were married and 90% of the women were single, and all the female medical students wanted a male medical student as their husband. Those female medical students only had a handful of guys to fight over and they did in fact fight over them.

To think you can get a top tier guy to end up on a dating app is a joke, that is impossible, top tier guys are not able to get through life and be single such that they have the liberty at some point in their lives to sign onto a dating app. The problem is social media still pushes the idea that top tier men are out there with the fake videos and reels etc and so every woman is hunting for a top tier man, but just like I explained above they do not exist in the condition called single.

So as these crazy women are fighting over men who do not exist, they end up with scammer fake chads who cannot live up to the profile they built but they get to pump and dump the women who fall for it, a guy has to find a way to get attention from high value women in an alternative method such as getting a passport and dating in a foreign country.

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Any rate, what you say Ashton is true, I am 42, I am not American, but as an outsider looking in, the one thing you touched on (religion) such the Bible which is clear about money. But at the core it is about moral standards. It is possible not to believe and have moral standards, because that is what is lacking. Without morality everything is about 'self' with moral standards rather you function as a member of society and it is about others. So your content is good, research is good, narrative good since you deal with the the problem, possible reason, historical context and what can be done. So the formula is right, you just have to focus on using a slightly more relatable message. I hope you see this as positive, obviously you care so do I.

While it's important to take self responsibility, you cant deny gen Z was given a real shit card. and yes, even during the great depression there were people who became millionaires but lets be real, they most likely had a headstart, not starting from nothing and even then were outliers.

Very profound vudeo😮😊

My dad was born in 1940 with maximum personal indulgence, with imposed Freemason everything. And actively avoiding Secret Society imposition with my 1967 year of birth. With join cult groups or else also happening, including worshipping the technology or else. Then I watch others with the same skills, disappearing into DoD R&D. Because Black Projects entangle by supplying social entanglements, instead of job promotions. Military towns have disappearing Gen Z through Federal Government Black Vehicles, as society gets worse. Polarity politics, will be Gen Z will fight their fellow Gen Z on the opposing side called Deep State recruits. Human trafficking will become more common, as people by specified descriptions become in demand, for harvest to corporate interest. And the data trail leads to those prized harvestable units.

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The vanity thing was always around but i think it got real bad when instagram came out. What i feel that's starting to change is the awareness that its all an illusion since this is an industry known as fake wealth. I also don't think porn is fully bad i think that in some aspects its become too over the top that unless you have a niche fetish most people wouldn't want to try most of the stuff they see on there. My personal favorite is the Amateur stuff because it feels more real/authentic. Relationships were always rocky the difference now from what I'm seeing is people like the idea of being in a relationship with someone but not putting in the work to build and maintain one. This is also very big in the gay community because every so often they loose interest in the person and go running off to someone else and it creates a cycle.

the boomers grew because of an expanding economy you need to grow the economy it's been stagnating for a long time you can do that by donating pennies to the dollar to corporations is just a theory of mine but it's possible it could be true I'm gen z i remember VHS tape 📼

Spend your money and have fun, there's no future 😂

Last man

That is the point, GenZ in the US may start to feel inflation now but until recently Americans had it good, the majority no real concern, easy money, this have changed within the last couple of years and I feel bad for Americans (US before some twat tells me America blah blah blah) I know my geography know all your States and most of your Presidents sadly I cannot the the same, regardless, the...the thing you own ends up owning you, to keep it you need to pay to keep it so guess what, in order to keep that house, car, whatever... yeah they own you. Now, no disrespect, but people buy stuff they do not need with money they don't have to impress people they don't even like. I see this from time to time, mostly young people from the U.S. Each minute 115 people die globally, that is about 166 000 a day, many as result of starvation. I care far more about these children. The US prints money because they control the USD, US Citizens pay inflation on money that is but numbers on a terminal which do not even exist and pay interest on it also. The USD is not back by any commodity such as Gold, so the 43 Trillion national debt you have... you are already starting to feel what inflation translates to in terms of cost of living, the moment the USD is not longer the global currency that debt needs to be repaid, which is not possible. Many will say this will not happen and I am sure when the Pound in the 1770's reigned supreme they said the same, point is it always changes, and my advice would be to divest not invest in the the USD, spend less, not because the USD might no longer be the global currency but because inflation will keep increasing and should there be a ww3, regardless who wins, the cost of living will be so high the very suffering resulting from hunger will not be limited to the 'those crap 3rd world nations'

I cannot imagine what society will be like when GenZ is in full charge. God help us.

It isnt your fault Zoomers

I completely disagree with the "our fault" in any way, shape or form. In my particular case, I'm 25 and already in the 90th percentile for salary in my country (one in Europe), sharing a flat with my ltr gf (who also works, but with a much worse salary), and have a degree and other useful skills to make a good living, right now and in the near future. We dine out 1-2 times a month, we control EVERY expense for the last 5 years or so (she is an accountant and she loves it, so I let her be), no coffees, no parties, pretty much nothing. We do not have a car (even though we could afford something cheap) and we are obviously renting. After all of this, we will probably be able to afford THE DOWN PAYMENT for a house in a village in 5-6 years (and that's with current prices). And remember, we are the top 20% easily between youngsters that don't live off their parents. We have unironically thought of living in a van for 2-3 years just to save the rent. Also, even if you can afford a house in a village (which are cheaper than any shitty flat in the city) the renovations are insane. Friends of ours have been unable to move to their 100k home because it' extremely rundown and they have to do everything by themselves after "such" financial investment. Sadly, our parents are working class and there is no way they can support us. What I appreciate is that they at least shut up about the situation and do not lecture us. My dad, at my age, had a car, a small flat, my mum as a gf, smoking 2 packs of cigs a day and partying from Thursday to Sunday, all while job hopping shitty jobs and with half the skills I have. And he was "poor" or at least not middle class, compared with most of the country. It's bonkers! The boomers have killed multiple generations of descendants while berating them for being poor and lazy. I would say they are like cancer, but a tumor doesn't treat you like a dog in it's way to kill you.

You don't need religion to be fulfilled. Just help others.

We are nothing without Jesus Christ

Gen Z has low T

Well that was quite a speech sir. Simply put - full throttle population reduction