A new Sage economic study tears into Gen Z-ers and finds that they are dour, depressed, and lazy. Consumer sentiment for 18 to 34 year olds is at the lowest level in at least 50 years. The youngest among us are supposed to be the most optimistic, but today’s crowd is the most pessimist. Maybe it’s because they’re indoctrinated in school to hate Donald Trump and love woke socialism. Whatever the reason, this crowd is going nowhere fast. Especially the men.

The jobless rate for men ages 20 to 24 is 9.1%. This is a very lonely crowd. Women will not marry unemployed men. And by the way, unemployed men can’t buy homes. This doesn’t exactly explain all the so-called unaffordability crisis, but it may well explain a good chunk of it. Perhaps I’m wrong about this — but too many of the Gen Z crowd

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