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And yet we are the coddled, snowflake generation xD make it make sense. I feel worse for the younger generations, tbh. At least we got to spend our childhoods and teens relatively carefree, if a bit aimless and with the feeling of not being needed in society.
Young people and kids today are dealing with constant existential crisis. I guess the upside to that is that they won't have to deal with this aimlessness that we dealt with, but maybe it's better to feel aimless than to carry the future of our planet on your shoulders before the age of 10.
In the end, we are all dealing with the same problems right now and we can only do our best.
The worst problem facing the younger generation is the widespread digital addiction we've built for them.
Their insecurity over the economy and their future doesn't disappear, they don't turn off the TV and go outside and talk to friends and neighbors and friendly old ladies with life advice. They retreat to discord channels of carefully curated members who only agree with each other, they learn to turn off their thoughts by watching 30-second comedy skit shorts that have ASMR clips and Subway surfers insets with horrendously misspelled captions.
Their anxiety and distress is going to be so, so much worse than ours (Speaking as Gen X) because there's no adult generation to look to and all their worst feelings only get amplified by the media they seek out.