Ryan Vet joins parenting coach Evan Sanchez on Still Launching to answer the question Gen X parents of stuck college grads keep asking the wrong way. Ryan stops him on the phrasing early — “what’s wrong with kids these days” smuggles in the assumption that the two childhoods were comparable, and once you have assumed that, every difference reads as a defect. What follows is the Generational Prism applied to the evidence: millennials held just 0.3 more jobs than boomers or Gen X by age 25, a gap that looks damning only until you notice child labour laws moved each generation’s first job later, and the 2008 headlines asking why millennials weren’t buying houses were written about a generation that mostly didn’t have a driver’s licence yet. His case for Gen Z is that the cohort is under-rehearsed rather than broken: most grads reached 22 without a bad boss, a bad client or a job they hated, so the formative failures older generations collected from fourteen onward now arrive all at once with a performance review attached. He also walks the trust ladder from institutional stability to Gen Z’s demand for authenticity, explains why respect was re-specified the moment the smartphone removed every gatekeeper, and — after Evan uses the word “overcorrect” twice — names the Generational Pendulum’s four beats and shows it already swinging again for Gen Beta.
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