Why Gen Z Is Gambling With Its Future



With homeownership out of reach, artificial intelligence cutting job prospects and index funds feeling too slow, many young investors are turning to meme stocks, options and crypto to meet their financial goals.

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Gen-Z Traders Go for Broke in Pursuit of a New American Dream

00:00 Introduction
01:51 Risk mindset
03:49 ‘Financial Nihilism’
05:47 Gamification of trading
06:38 Alternative investments
08:43 Misunderstanding Gen Z

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32 Comments

  1. Home ownership was a rare thing in decades past, previous to let’s say 1970, for young people. Historically people moved around a lot for work and when they were settled down, they were in larger family or supportive groups. Historically young people were broke as $#!t! Young people did not have near as much money as Young people have today. If they did, they would be considered rich by ANY historical standard. I have no clue why this message is missed by the news, documentaries and stories like this. Gen Z might not be able to afford a house, but why would they want one? Being locked down, tied down, is a horrible way to start out making your way in this world. I tell you what is not reported as it should be, and that is the low rate of people living communally, in pairs or groups of 4-6. Some do it, and that is great, but not like back in the 1950’s.

  2. ""Wealth inequality" does not matter! That's a concept promoted by Marxists in order to cause unrest. They do this because they want to break what is otherwise a well functioning economic and political system.

  3. So is it true? I don't know any genz people well enough to ask. Does anyone know any gen z kids that are obsessively trading or in deep addiction/debt from sports trading?

  4. This is great. If anyone looks at "financial news" today you will realize that it is run by old people who have no idea. The most clueless Buch of old people in a profession who have cover in that the people who follow them are equally clueless. It’s the equivalent of the televangelist era. It's the perfect space for disruption. If it's going to explode, let's have it spectacularly explode.

  5. Well people are like… let it rot… but not my child… let the rich breed so much like pigs, at one point it will get into inbreeding… we've seen the rat utopia experiment 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

  6. Though this video is great. especially from a production stand point, I don't think it really goes over how younger people were basically raised to take more risk (all be it like every generation). Quotes like: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't miss" and "Losing 90% is fine so long as you have the 10% winnings to pay for the losses" tend to be an interesting contradiction/connected of quotes.

  7. Just another type of scamming, to be fair not so different from the old times junk products door to door sellers or those pyramid schemes

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