“I was so upset and disappointed in myself because growing up, I was told that if I get an education, if I go to college, then I’ll be successful,” Santos told Business Insider—and she’s not the first Gen Zer to complain about feeling tricked into pursuing further education.
Just last month, 27-year-old Robbie Scott similarly went viral on TikTok for insisting that Gen Z isn’t any less willing to work than generations before. Instead, he said, they are “getting angry and entitled and whiny” about the prospect of having to work hard for the rest of their adult life, only to “get nothing in return.”
At this point I assume any viral video featured on a big news source is a setup. It’s either someone trying to get in on a grift, or it’s a pre-existing grift and some money got juiced into it somewhere. I never thought I’d miss the days of genuine cranks getting popular.
But you’re right, this video felt the same as those headlines like “Millennial buys $1.2 million house with their own money by drinking water instead of avocado juice”