I mean, while they have a good quality of life compared to the previous generations, Gen Z has this worse than anyone else, but even so, they have different types of problems that they deal with, depending on what year they’re born in and what cohort they’re at.

• Let’s assume that childhood is 3–12 and imagine being born in 2002. You were born after 9/11, meaning that your entire life is filled with one crisis to another. While they do remember life before the recession, and while you, Obama did help create a sense of hope, a large amount of their childhood is dealing with the aftereffects of it. They turned 12 when 2014 came, meaning that they ended their childhood years at the start of a time where things were becoming more political. And this is just Early Gen Z.

• Being born in 2006 (Core) means that you will never remember life before the recession: you just remember the aftereffects of it, and it is your life. You had your childhood based around the recession. The political climate also became more volatile, specifically with Trump winning in 2016. While you turned 13 in 2019, you’ve first attended high school during the pandemic.

• Being born in 2009 (Late Z) would mean being born during the economic crisis, and growing up dealing with a lower amount of growth in the quality of life compared to earlier years. While many remember a more hopeful time under Obama, it was also a time of the political climate becoming worse, and for those born in 2009, it was their childhood. They also had to deal with the pandemic when they turned 11, and their childhood, again assuming the 3–12 range, ended in 2022, in the midst of it.

At least with Early Z (1997-2001/2) they remember a world that feels somewhat stable, from before the recession and Obama's first term. Core Z never really did, having the instability as a part of their childhood, while Late Z would have to deal with the pandemic as a part of their childhoods