I was thinking about this, about all the expectations that each new generation gets. "They're our future, they're gonna change the world, they're fixing stuff". Maybe that's true, but I feel like sometimes people overstate it.
For example, hitting and yelling at your children. The science is now showing that this sort of thing is detrimental to children. My Gen X parents certainly hit and yelled at me as a kid. I know my father and mother were raised like that and then some. I had it comparatively better. Many of my peers have had similar or worse experiences.
If you think about it, a good chunk of the abusers and child predators in prison right now are Gen X. And in a few decades, there will be a comparatively sizable amount of abusers and child predators that are Gen Z.
Climate change, sexism, corporate greed, war, etc. aren't fixed, and there's new shit to deal with every day. Gen Z and 𝜜 might make some good changes, might make some bad changes, and a lot of things will stay the same. In the grand scheme of things, all roads lead to our deaths, as individuals and as a species. We just manage to drag it out for a bit.