Gen Z Isn’t Screwed

The cultural consensus is that Gen Z is miserable. Today’s young people are lost and stagnant—and for good reason, too. You see, Gen Zers have been dealt a singularly bad hand by fate. While their forebears had it easy, they must struggle amid, as writer Emi Nietfeld put it in a recent New York Times essay, “the worst job market in years” and a planet that will soon become “uninhabitable.”