Millennials are the generation of dashed expectations. Gen Z are the generation who didn't have any expectations to dash.

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) July 16, 2022

True. I have a few Gen Z friends. They know they are completely screwed. The Millennials were promised better and that was yanked away from them, which made them bitter and paranoid; Boomers reaped all the gains and pulled up the ladder behind them, while hurling abuse at the Millennials below. Gen Z witnessed all this and realized they weren’t even going to receive Boomer scraps and are not bitter like the Millennials but rather resigned to their fate, with a wicked sense of humor about it all.

A Gen Z friend of mine said, “I’m just waiting to die in the water wars. My retirement plan is an early grave.” And she was not kidding.