> There's a dangerous trend I've noticed with GenZ, they're quick (sometimes to the point of seeming rushed) to show off hyperbolic-sounding achievements that are mostly hot air
Isn’t it true for every so-called edge that CEOs pitch to shareholders?
> show off hyperbolic-sounding achievements which are mostly hot air and many times even work stolen from others.
Steve Jobs was born in 1955, the ball has been rolling for a while now. Gen Z might just be the crowd that recognizes how lucrative it is to scam people.
We must have different definitions of hot air, if yours includes a 4-trillion-dollar company.
Edit: you edited your comment so now my reply doesn't make sense. I would re-post your old comment but I didn't save it. I won't change mine because I'm not like that.
The creation in the article appears to be genuinely useful and impressive as well. It certainly benefitted a great deal from other people's work, but so did apple and linux and whatever else.
With all due respect, the edit only added the second sentence. Your response is not a refutation of what I meant, and I'm not going to retract the edit so you can better mock my point.
You're literally being downvoted for stereotyping an entire generation. The word stereotype implies it, but it's not remotely close to true.
Like, the easiest, most obvious example in the world is trump: he hyperbolically brags constantly about things he didn't do or actively tried to stop and it would be real hard to argue that he's genZ.
When you single out a specific group for your observation, it has strong implications about the other groups you didn't mention.
Yeah and that would be a lot more relevant if we were talking about, dunno, programming circuits or constructing proofs.
Instead we're writing english language sentences to be read by humans. Where connotations and implications and other such "unspoken" things absolutely matter.
Are you trolling? The implication is clearly that GenZ is unusually hyperbolic. That their predilection for hyperbole is somehow unusual or notable, otherwise WHY MENTION IT.
Speaking personally, the Summer of Love and 1990s counterculture is much more unusual and hyperbolic. I'd be curious to hear where you're seeing Gen Z surpass those generations.
Unusual yes, but I wouldn't call them hyperbolic (in the context of its meaning in this thread).
Also, wrt. to the Summer of Love, I would think its values are in the complete opposite side of what's being discussed here.
Excerpt from its Wikipedia page [1]:
"Many opposed the Vietnam War, were suspicious of government, and rejected consumerist values. In the United States, counterculture groups rejected suburbia and the American way and instead opted for a communal lifestyle. Some hippies were active in political organization, whereas others were passive and more concerned with art (music, painting, poetry in particular) or spiritual and meditative practices."
That doesn't sound compatible with "young people these days are so desperate to show off their skills, to the point of faking it, to get jobs in the government or the industry".
But I am now curious to hear about how you think both cohorts are related.
Reply to edit: generations are sequential; if you've noticed something with one generation it means that you're not accusing the prior generations of the same thing, otherwise you would've used different wording.
> It's sad, but I think our generation is partly to blame, since we demanded that from them.
At least you can recognize that much. Too many people involved in building an economy based around narcissism are suddenly wondering why there are a ton of narcissists.
