A study had 42% of Gen Z thinking first-person fraud is OK (falsely charging back credit cards for products received, or falsely asserting products were not delivered when they were to get refunds).
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gen-z...101419202.html
This is essentially doubled from Millennials (22%).
Additionally long running study/surveys that have been going on for decades have seen significant spikes in narcissism and ego...
Honestly the participating trophy thing is where Millennials came from, it was a issue with mildly inflated ego or probably lack of motivation in some, but that's hardly the issue today - and the Millennials are no longer a problem.
The big thing with Gen Z is the parents (usually Gen X) often trying to keep their kids from experiencing any adversity at all, and the whole world revolves around the child, coupled with a generation raised within social media where everyone thinks they are a celebrity and you can potentially get rich off of no labor by going "viral". There are also more only children these days than traditionally as well which is an issue of itself (raised without competition)... and will continue to be. All together it makes for some f'ing sociopathic tyrants. Fortunately it's still in the minority, but not by enough of a margin. I'm not sure where Alpha will land, but the world-revolving around the child is still an issue and coupled with the only-child thing it's probably getting worse.
And yeah, the soft-on-crime approach is also coupled/in part, caused by a rising # of events. Our system is just not made to deal with it. With the # of cases, they flat out catch and release a lot more, everywhere (even conservative places) and it's a business of it's own right built around forcing pleas regardless of guilt or innocence, so the plea quality has also gone down to move more cases. Our judicial system is from the worst part of the middle ages (founding fathers fucked this up, respectfully], and adapts about as quickly as a 500 year-old institution with fake wigs.
I'll ETA: Another big contributing factor is it is becoming harder to survive. COL vs income is getting shittier across the nation as the countries "credit card debt" continues to climb, debt maintenance is becoming the biggest part of our government spending, and we're in so much deficit that we're constantly printing money. No, this isn't because of Biden, both sides have been shit, Trump especially. In any event, homelessness has dramatically increased, and addictions from people with no resilience, etc. Most people are paycheck to paycheck or worse. Ya'll saw America at it's peak probably in the 90's.
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Originally Posted by Hummer
