Gen Z paralyzed with fear of turning 30, becoming ‘unattractive hags’: ‘Life might as well end at 22’

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Gen Z paralyzed with fear of turning 30, becoming ‘unattractive hags’: ‘Life might as well end at 22’

“So much of my generation basically views life after college as one long, pointless, depressing downward slide toward a nursing home and death,” said one Gen Zer. “Life might as well end at 22 beca…

nypost.com

 

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Or better yet how about science come up with a way to stop aging.

 

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The oldest Gen Z's are turning 27 in 2024 (1997 births). The NY Post article above cited two 29 years olds, who are late Millennials.

The 1997-2001 birth group hasn't had a fun otime in life as I'll illustrate below.

I think some of the them lost their childhood innocence with the Great Recession. Perhaps they had a parent lose a job in the 2008-2011 time period. 1980s born Millennials who weren't parents in the late 2000s/early 2010 took the worst of the Great Recession, not parents of 1997-2001 born Gen Z'ers. As a 1980s born Millennial myself, I consider Gen Z fortunate to have still been in childhood when the Great Recession hit.

These 1997-2001 born Gen Z'ers graduated into the employment market affected by a bad pandemic. That had to be not so good.

Social media and smartphones were a part of their junior high and high school years. I got to do junior high and high school before social media and smartphones. That's not good either. In my senior year of high school (2000-2001 school year), very few of my classmates even had basic cell phones, let alone smartphones.

Male sexlessness rates have been higher for late Millennials and early Gen Z.