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I have this analysis of what happened to gen Z I paint gen Z as a generation that's been damaged that's going to be
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less than they would have been they're less ambitious they're less successful they're less happy they're less
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competent I've given versions of this talk in middle schools in high schools in universities I always ask at the end
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of it what do you think did I get your generation wrong maybe one time someone said I think you got this wrong the
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other you know thousands and thousands and thousands of times they say yep that's basically right now maybe some of
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them are too shy to speak up but my point is young kids like 9 10 they desperately want phone Tik Tok
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everything but by the time they're in late high school or certainly College the overwhelming view I find among gen Z
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is wow did this mess us up not that I'm going to quit because I don't want to be
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alone but man did this mess us up and that's why when you ask them do you wish social media was never invented most of
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them say yes I wish it was never invented that's why this is so different from any previous Tech Panic is that the
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kids themselves see the problem