Generation Z
Why we can (still) be saved
Briefly about me
I was born in 2007, so I'm kind of in the middle of it, in Generation Z. My father has been introducing me to the stock market for a few years. In the meantime, I am very interested in the subject myself and have the right to decide on my future portfolio.
Especially in this topic I am very interested in other opinions, because they often go far apart. So please let me know your opinion, best together with feedback to my post. Only in this way I can improve myself and my posts. Thanks!
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Disclaimer
To begin with, I don't want to evaluate statistics or surveys in this article, but rather present my personal view objectively. Therefore, I can only report from my own environment. In addition I must say something briefly. I come from a very privileged family. We have never lacked money or anything similar. My environment is shaped accordingly.
Someone from a family with less money or other circumstances probably has different views.
Introduction
Generation Z for many this means social media, work-life balance or excessive environmental protection (FfF). I guess almost every young person will have heard phrases like "you're only on your cell phone" or "go outside" from older people. For them, my generation stands mainly for egoism or "no bock auf arbeiten". For others, I feel, we represent climate protection and progress. My feeling is that both are at least not 100% the case.
Why?
But, my pension(?)
At best, we won't have to worry about that in the next few years because we've introduced a stock pension. Whether that comes is a moot point, what is meant remains the same. A generation far removed from reality wants to have everything but do as little as possible for it. Preferably a four-day week and more than 30 days of vacation per year.
Honestly, that is exaggerated. I know only a few people who hold such opinions. Basically I feel rather the opposite. Especially at my school, the goals are usually set high, you want to do more than others, get a better job, earn more but are also willing to do something for it (the same is true for me). Leaving school before graduating from high school is not an option. You want to study, become a doctor, lawyer or teacher. An attitude which is to be welcomed in principle, but as we all know also problems with itself brings. One thinks of the numerous training occupations such as cashier or the most urgently needed care - cleaners. Non-academic areas that are nevertheless all the more important.
But is the problem really with us, or because of the fact that in such jobs is still paid as little as possible. Few percent with the health insurance more pay? In no case! Should the in the hospital rather provide good food.
These are problems. It is in the nature of man to want recognition. Whether generation X, Y or Z. No needs of individual cohorts.
Problems that do not solve themselves, they need a strong society, an active policy, a system change. Nationalization of hospitals will increase the problems rather than help them.
What I'm aiming at, it's not one generation changing completely, it's a changing system that requires change requires. With cohorts that want more, are more performance oriented and most importantly want more money. Instead of getting angry about individual generations, we should look at the circumstances of those who have to carry on their backs a pension system that is doomed to fail.
What role does social media play?
A love-hate relationship. Entertainment on one side, hate and consumed news on the other.
Nowhere is life as fast-paced as here.
Nowhere could news and explosive topics spread like this.
Nowhere have so many trends come from.
A generation that has grown up with Instagram, Snapchat and the like and has become accustomed to being able to contact (almost) anyone in the world at any time.
That something like this brings problems with it is virtually predetermined. Overweight children who are only on their cell phones, hardly any "real" interaction and the forgetting of real social contacts, not over the Internet.
On the other hand, numerous advantages. Protests like in Iran, mainly brought forward by media like Twitter or Facebook, freedom of speech, over all where there is internet.
What I want to say is, we live in a world where everyone can be aware of so much more than 20 years ago. A world where people will do anything for likes and attention. A world that makes people angry to get more interaction. And by extension, a world that provokes, intentionally.
Maybe that's why we think of a generation that will never be able to do important jobs or advance a country politically. Because we are facing the greatest challenge in living memory, the solution to which requires smart minds, not impulsive actions. requires.
Challenges
I don't want to complain all the time, there has never been so much technical progress as today. Computers the size of a bar of chocolate that are more powerful than the system on board Apollo 11. The possibility of being close to our relatives, despite thousands of kilometers of distance.
And yet, the challenges are greater than ever. We have a war in the middle of Europe, a humanity that is cutting down rainforests at an indescribable pace and a complete change of climatic conditions. This is not a luxury problem, it affects every one of us.
I live in a generation that tries to wake up. Often exaggerated, with illegal actions that remain illegal. No matter what they draw attention to. But whether we might celebrate those very people as heroes in 50 years because they saved us from the fall of human civilization, no one knows.
What we need is change. Everywhere and that is out of the question. That older people do not understand this zeitgeist, you can not reproach them, so many of us do not even. But it does exist, that is neither wrong nor deniable.
Conclusion
We need change. Because our society is changing. This is becoming more and more noticeable. Major issues such as climate protection and war have accompanied us and our everyday lives for many years. Because even if this change of course displeases many, it is necessary. Because humanity is heading for an abyss. A steep cliff for which it is responsible.