We’re Old, Retired—and Apparently Invisible.

This has occurred in large part because America is the most age-segregated society in the Western world by far. Gen Zers as well as younger Millennials are convinced if there is more than a one year age gap, then those people have absolutely nothing in common and in fact are not even the same species. It’s the strangest thing.

It wasn’t always this way! When I was in my late teens and early 20s, I had friends my own age but also friends as old as early 70s. That was not unusual back then. Now it’d be unheard of and to Gen Z, it’d be creepy and “sus.”

This is what happens when you make every human relationship about power rather than care and affection. Socially, Gen Z is totally screwed. It’s not entirely their fault but it’s still not fun to observe.