The chapter explores how Generation Z is perceived and behaving in a financial context, debunking stereotypes about their work ethic and economic success. Despite facing challenges like high housing prices and education costs, Gen Z is shown to have a higher average income than millennials and boomers at the same age, indicating a positive financial outlook.
When you look around the world, and at a wider set of measures, Generation Z are far better off than the popular narrative would have you believe. We examine what India’s push to soup up its nukes means for the global arms race (09:30). And even as global fertility rates fall, sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing a relative baby boom (17:11).
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