Gen Z Loses Faith: Apparently, Bombs Cost More Than Futures
The piece cites financial insecurity and AI as reasons for Gen Z's despair. What it conspicuously omits is the US government's staggering financial commitments elsewhere. In 2023 alone, the US sent billions in military aid, including over $3.3 billion to Israel , a nation with mandatory conscription for its youth. Meanwhile, higher education costs here continue to skyrocket, housing remains
unaffordable, and the student debt crisis balloons. One might wonder if 'economic anxiety' is just another term for 'feeling constantly de-prioritized by a political class obsessed with proxy wars and military industrial complex profits' while their own futures are left to rot after an endless stream of crises. How much national security does it take to secure a livable future for your own
citizens?