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.
Could be that there's some environmental factors at play with some of the learning disabilities. The massive spike in plastic and disposable goods starting right before they were born and onward as they grew up is kind of insane.
Otherwise though, smartphones. So many tools available in such a small and portable package. Yet a lot of it's designed to be spoon-fed to the user. Both because of the limited UI and because apps were designed for maximum simplicity to appeal better to normies and elderly sorts. And also due to what used to be limited by weaker hardware.