I’ll be upfront and say that as a millennial, I was a shithead in my 20s. I never put my best foot forward and my work ethic was questionable at best, especially when I found the job to be bullshit. I think this is common for every generation growing up, so the amount of Gen Z hate I see constantly is staggering. Everywhere you look it is Gen Z being berated for not caring about work and how tech illiterate they are… But honestly I don’t really see that at least in the White Gen Z men. They seem fine and not anymore phone-addicted than Millennials and Gen X’ers, and if they did have a “lacking” work ethic, I don’t really blame them since they are still so young and living in a damn clown world and being constantly reminded of how much of a clown world they live in.
I don’t see a group of failures, I see a group that has been failed by whatever vestiges of a society we have left, and everybody seems to be more interested in keeping them down than bothering to lend a hand in any meaningful way.
I had to look to make sure I knew what was even counted as Gen Z and found generally 1997-2012. So the two groups I know are at either the oldest (late 20s) or youngest (mid teens) of that. The former being an old gaming group several of which I knew locally and a few I’ve kept up with. They are all generally okay. Not perfect but neither was I. Even the ones that bordered on basement dwelling leech have started to grow out of it. The younger group is my cousin and I know a few of his friends too. It’s no more or less fucked up than when I was a teenager what seems ages ago. There’s a bit too much love for nigger rap and internet trend chasing I suppose. I don’t hear a ton of the Gen Z slang as they’ve gotten older that went mostly away. I do struggle with if my cousin and if he’s going to amount to anything, but that’s his parents fault. He’s legitimately a good smart guy just he’s never pushed to do anything difficult so he doesn’t try at times. He’s not even lazy. One of his best friends is a really solid just good dude high character well beyond his age. I certainly can’t just pick out anything worse than any other group of teenagers. The young ones totally reject all the faggotry.
So yeah, I don’t think you’re wrong really. Although I don’t really know anyone in the middle years of Gen Z, and I only know white guys.