The Patriot Post® · Zoomers: The Most Entitled Generation

Generation Z, generally consisting of young adults and kids born between 1997 and 2012, are slowly trickling into the adult workforce from their ivory towers of college. The elder Gen Zers have been in the workforce for four years, and already they’ve made their presence known — and not in a good way.

According to Fox News, a whopping 75% of bosses and managers in various places of work have described Gen Z as “more difficult to work with than other generations.” What have these bosses got to say about their young employees? Well, they tend to have an over-inflated opinion of their intelligence, experience, and merit, and they are very likely to challenge authority structures within a company. They also are too easily offended.

In other words, by and large, they are entitled and unteachable. Why is that, exactly? For some of these companies, what they are running into with Gen Z is a generation that was raised with the iPad. Gen Zers are very comfortable with the online world, however, that doesn’t excuse their over-inflated sense of superiority.

Gen Z is also very loud about yelling at Millennials for their raising of Gen Alpha as “entitled” and “bratty.” Millennials do have a bad habit of throwing their kids in front of screens — particularly individual screens like the iPad or the phone — despite all the warnings (even from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy). We shall see if Gen Zers themselves do better — which may be a small number anyway since this generation calls people who choose to have children “breeders” and is the most indoctrinated in the death-cult belief of “children are a climate footprint disaster.”

Gen Zers have been described as easily offended. This is not surprising, as they grew up in a world where being offended (i.e., being the victim) has instant rewards both socially and culturally. It is also worth pointing out that of Gen Z’s U.S. population, 20.8% of them identify as LGBTQ+ — and this is only the oldest end of that generational span. The number is most likely higher.

Gen Zers are not entirely to blame. They are a product of the people who raised them (Boomers and Gen X), the digital age, and an ideological takeover that engulfed almost their entire educational existence. It is also worth noting here that Boomers and Zoomers are equally unpopular generations. Coincidence?

They are coming of age in an economy in which it is, for them, difficult to be financially successful. What marks that success? Being able to afford rent, food, and amenities (all without a roommate). That is not feasible in this economy, and that is not necessarily their fault — unless they voted for a radical Democrat. Gen Zers, like good little brainwashed comrades, blame their financial woes on capitalism. This is ludicrous, of course. It’s in large part leftist monetary theory that is driving our economy into bankruptcy. That, and taking on college debt without getting a degree with a good income return.

Gen Z is also the generation that gets its news from TikTok — the Chinese-owned spyware and brainwashing social media company — and is the generation least likely to enlist to serve our country through the military. Some have been brought up to hate America and bought into a pacifist/moral equivalence ideology. The only good reason not to enlist is that the military at its highest ranks is infested with woke leadership, and that’s a reason some Gen Zers have as well.

As writers Mike Gallagher and Kevin Wallsten mention in a piece for The Wall Street Journal: “Gen Z’s voice is getting louder. Next year 41 million of its members will be eligible to vote. As we grapple with a war in Ukraine, unrest in the Middle East, and a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan, Gen Z’s ascendancy will make maintaining public support for a lethal, forward-deployed all-volunteer force more difficult.”

How do we convince a generation that perhaps the ways they were brainwashed into thinking about the world at large and their country in particular aren’t correct? One would hope time and life experience will wake some of them up. Perhaps it will. What won’t fix anything is indulging their tendency to be offended, entitled, and condescending. We older generations can only live by example and hope that perhaps Gen Z sees it and wants to do the same.