I run a business where half of my employees are teenagers or young adults. Even ten years ago, I could have expected a level of maturity and intelligence from a fifteen-year-old that I can now only reliably expect from an eighteen-year-old. My hiring threshold for age has had to increase just to find people who will reliably show up for work, let alone are capable of actually independently doing their job for ten minutes without supervision.

The school lockdowns during the plandemic were the absolute nail in the coffin for this generation. They were on shaky ground before that. Now they're just fucked.