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Sorry, but if Europeans are going to spell it "Gen-Zed", then Americans get to spell it "Gen-Zee".

Turns out "you have no future and the planet is dying" is kinda shit for morale.

So if you wanna know my personal story, I was given the feeling that even looking at a girl directly was sexual harassment, when I was 12 years old.

Now do 1+1 and figure out why Gen Z is "timid, self-conscious neurotic". And I say it again, human contact is essential for mental wellbeing, as humans are incredibly social creatures. Yes, contact without physical contact is not to be considered proper contact.

A bunch of them helped Trump get back in the WH. Not exactly risk-averse in my book.

Driving cost money (remeber used cars selling for more than new?). They use to get drivers license to hang out (and have sex) with their friends. Now everything moved online.

Alcohol decreases where marajuana is legalized, a safer alternative.

Women saw the right to an abortion disappear- and more than half of gen Z men support it. That plus sex ed leads to low levels of sex.

But, no, it is because all of Gen Z is "Timid".

This isn't just Gen Z. Yes, it's happening to them, but it's also happening to the rest of us. It's impacting low to middle income folks the most, because we can't afford the rising costs of, well, everything.

Job security is also extremely hard to find these days, and Healthcare costs have been getting worse ever since Obama left office.

I'm surprised only 1 in 5 is depressed. Oh, diagnosed, got it.

What age is it okay to walk a couple miles from your house these days?

I urge people to please read the article. When you read it properly, you can see that it mentions that Gen Z are emotionally risk averse but says nothing about their risk taking in other avenues like finance, entrepreneurship, career direction, etc.

In fact, the Forbes article clearly shows how Gen Z are taking more risks in entrepreneurship and work related activities.

Forbes is just writing fan fiction for a certain demographic................

"Careless mans careful daughter."

See parents be dumb sometimes leads kids to not want to be like them.

I dunno, I worked with a Gen Z aged dude that thought blowing his life savings on a down payment for a new Camaro was a sound investment because it was going to be the last ICE Camaro ever made.

I wanted to go into the points that a new car depreciates the second it leaves the lot, the cost of upkeep between now and the years it would take for the car to POSSIBLY gain value, but I knew they wouldn't listen.

Last time I spoke with him before he was fired he was trying to decide whether it was a better idea to ship his collection of Pokemon cards to California to get professionally graded or to take the trip himself.

Dude definitely took risks. He definitely had some NFTs in his portfolio.

18-to-24-year-olds

Weird grouping with Gen Z being 3 years older than the max

But the way they use the computer and internet shows they aren’t risk adverse, just different risks

The anxiety is probably because like millennials, they’ve been told the world is ending their whole lives and instead of doing anything about it we’ve just made the middle class poor

We don't need to take risks, our circumstances are taking all the risk for us.

That actually seems just true or perhaps it just lines up with my personality. Alghtough i wouldnt be so quick to put wars , plauges and other dangers as the actual cause. its probably the opposite and the relative lack of those combined with the social media either overblowing most stuff or completley opposite , ridiculuing the problem with no inbetweens makes pepole weary .

I hate these articles that try to paint entire generations of people with the same brush.

I can attest to this. My kids and nieces/nephews are all reaching high school and they are so chill compared to my generation. They're not interested in booze, sex, drugs or being out all night. They're happy at home gaming together online or coding or something. It's good really, we were not risk averse enough