Gen Z’s crisis of agency deserves compassion. But that doesn’t mean it’s well-founded.
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On average, Gen Zers say they’d need to earn a salary of $600,000 per year to feel financially successful. That’s around 13 times the country’s median income and more money than 99 percent of Americans will take home this year. It’s also just one of several startling statistics tucked inside of writer and former Google software engineer Emi Nietfeld’s recent guest essay for the New York Times, “Gen Z Fell Out of Love With Work.
Alex Demas is an editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he worked in England as a financial journalist and earned his MA in Political Economy at King's College London. When not heroically combating misinformation online, Alex can be found mixing cocktails, watching his beloved soccer team Aston Villa lose a match, or attempting to pet stray cats.
