Hacker News with Generative AI: Generational Differences

Why Japan's Gen Z is 'quiet quitting' work (dw.com)
It is a far cry from their parents' generation, but 20-something Japanese are happy to sacrifice a career and better pay for an improved work-life balance.

Generational Differences, Work Culture, Japan, Millennials, Work-Life Balance

19 points by rustoo 33 days ago | 2 comments

Alone Together: Disconnection Is Our Generation's Black Death (josef.cn)
The Black Death killed 100 million people in the 14th century. It’s happening again. Just like back then, none of us seem to know why.

Social Issues, Technology, Generational Differences

17 points by josefchen 48 days ago | 8 comments

UK poll: Work and money worry young people more than culture wars or climate (theguardian.com)
Young people are more worried about their finances, work pressures and job insecurity than social media, the climate crisis and culture war debates, research shows.

Generational Differences, UK Politics, Economics, Social Issues

42 points by Pamar 89 days ago | 80 comments

The average college student today (hilariusbookbinder.substack.com)
I’m Gen X. I was pretty young when I earned my PhD, so I’ve been a professor for a long time—over 30 years. If you’re not in academia, or it’s been awhile since you were in college, you might not know this: the students are not what they used to be.

Generational Differences, Education, Higher Education, College Students

777 points by Jyaif 90 days ago | 984 comments

For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege (businessinsider.com)
For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege

Education, Generational Differences, Literacy

5 points by GeoAtreides 183 days ago | 0 comments

How Gen Z Came to See Books as a Waste of Time (theatlantic.com)
An alarming phenomenon has sprung up over the past few years: Many students are arriving at college unprepared to read entire books.

Education, Generational Differences, Reading, Literature

5 points by marban 206 days ago | 2 comments

Generation Never-Called-in-Sick (businessinsider.com)
Retired boomers have one big regret

Retirement, Boomers, Generational Differences

16 points by agubelu 263 days ago | 10 comments

Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files? (hyperknot.com)
Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files?

Generational Differences, User Interface, Computing History, File Systems

12 points by novoreorx 275 days ago | 6 comments

Why Is Britain Poor? (edwest.co.uk)
Perhaps one of the few positive benefits of British teenagers being hooked on TikTok is that, by viewing the lives of their contemporaries in the United States, they might come to appreciate just how poor their own country is. And, who knows, some of them might even want to do something about it.

Economy, Social Issues, UK, Generational Differences, Social Media

60 points by paulpauper 277 days ago | 83 comments

Korea's birth rate drive struggles to sway 'YOLO' generation (reuters.com)

Korea, Demographics, Birth Rates, Social Trends, Generational Differences

14 points by achristmascarl 304 days ago | 6 comments

Current generation of young developers has been brainwashed by tech influencers (twitter.com)

Software Development, Social Media, Generational Differences

16 points by thunderbong 310 days ago | 4 comments

It's Not Just You. No One Wants Kids Anymore [video] (youtube.com)

Demographics, Social Trends, Family Planning, Generational Differences

41 points by Rinzler89 317 days ago | 120 comments

Young women fall out of love with dating apps (ft.com)

Dating Apps, Social Trends, Relationships, Generational Differences

62 points by belter 397 days ago | 129 comments

Is finding gaps just hard now? As a 24 yo, everything seems to be done already (ycombinator.com)