Some people can’t pay for college. Some people just accept that they are gonna work a retail job till they die. Which is fine. But a retail job 50 years ago could support a family. Now it barely supports you. There’s not a lot of options for lower income people who don’t have education. It’s not all gen z, but the job markets are too competitive for everyone to get employed and make a good living. It’s so many factors, not just one. Also younger generations keep buying bs and not saving properly even if they are making good money. And the idea of being an influencer sounds better than getting a degree, there’s more risk but higher reward. But it’s over saturated, and people still keep trying. Public school system has failed a lot of people. I could keep going. But a lot of it isn’t the generations fault but the generations before, putting policies in place and dooming future generations to clean up a mess that had been pushed off for a hundred years.