"Suzy Welch, an NYU business professor, previously said the trend is fuelled by Gen Z’s ‘strong desire to avoid anxiety at any cost’ because they haven’t made hard decisions or done hard things.
Pike believes the discussions around mental health and mental illness must continue and that Gen Z will eventually learn to cope with difficult feelings.
‘There may be times where a Gen Z young professional may have a threshold around stress or anxiety or mood that actually over time an expanded comfort with a wider range of emotional experience will actually be a maturing experience for them,’ she said.
‘Success grows out of learning how to get back on the horse, learning how to build the skills, how to ask for help, and how to build capacity in ways that didn’t exist. That’s part of maturing in the workplace.’"
So fucking tone deaf, gotta love the baiting of success. Success to Business Insider of course meaning committing your life force to that grind culture to make the owner’s ego score lines go up.
Young people not cooperating with owning class plot to use them and discard them like disposable, replaceable parts in their vanity machines, suggest they should straighten up and fly right and know their place like millennials and Xers did.
Now that the promises of Salvation through Hard Work and upward mobility have been thoroughly debunked, there’s nothing to motivate the kids to grow up to be wage slaves and willing victims of office abuse.
The ownership class will tremble something something chains.
We’ve already seen capitalism fail twice in recent memory, first in 2008 and then in 2020. One would have to be a complete fool to believe the system is fair at this point.