Is Gen Z Cooked? (with Julian Figueroa)
Ideas to take with you.
- 01
People almost never learn sound money first and then buy Bitcoin – the ownership tends to come first, and the curiosity about the money system follows.
- 02
The credentialed middle career path has quietly become the highest-risk option for young people, because it demands debt and time against a future that keeps failing to arrive on schedule.
- 03
New audiences are reached through relatable messengers, not through more depth or more data – more voices matter more than deeper explanations.
- 04
Physical craft rebuilds a form of confidence that purely digital work erodes, and this matters independently of any economic argument.
- 05
Vitriol toward AI in the West and enthusiasm for it in China are the same underlying problem rendered differently: technology's deflationary gift can only flow to people if the monetary system does not sit downstream of it.
