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Every generation complains how much worse the next generation is.
It's all a lie to make old people feel better about themselves declining with age.
We need to join the generations into one super generation. Why do we let people pit ourselves against each other? Father vs son, mother vs daughter, grandma vs nephew and so on...
Time to combine the bitterness and resentment of the older generations with the can do attitude of today's youth and inflate the numbers with gen x who will just act as fillers.
This isn’t just people whining cause they’re old, Gen Z really is less technically adept than Gen X and Millennials. I don’t know if anybody is sure exactly why, but articles I’ve read tend to attribute it to the tech we use being so easy to use that they don’t need to learn how to do things that would seem trivial to their elders.
Take archiving, like in the example above. These days, you don’t usually need to archive things. Everything is in the cloud, and sharing files is as easy as airdropping them, or sending access to a contact. Most people would look at how easy it is to do that, and not bother learning the manual way, because why would they? They have no idea how to use something like 7-zip or FTP, because all of their digital lives are carried with them everywhere they go, and are synced across all their devices. There’s no technical knowledge required.
They're also on average more creative/adept with the tech they do use though. Lots of youngins are great at making little edited videos and stuff with their phones and tablets and programs they have on hand.
Limitation often breeds creativity.