A screaming child who had his iPad taken might come to your mind. Alpha Kids are reportedly not doing well in school and many are subject to the algorithms of today. They will have a front row seat to the future we are headed towards.
Do you have hope that Generation Alpha will live happy and fulfilling lives?
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I actually do. Gen Z is lost. Social media, COVID, they got fucked.
In California schools have banned cell phones starting next school year. More laws blocking kids under 18 or 16 from using social media are popping up around the world. I think alpha is going to have a shot.
My daughter is Gen Alpha, 2014. It’s hard to believe she will be a teenager next year, I can’t believe how fast 12 years have flown by.
I really hope this country can start turning things around and Trump becomes a distant memory and women start getting the rights to their bodies back. Will be a long time before that happens in my state.
I think her generation is going to pay heavily for our failures but I believe they come out stronger in the end and more united against what will make their lives hard.
I wish they did live happy, but seeing the world and how is it going I have strong doubts.
But I’m no blaming the kids for this. I’m blaming the parent thinking that an iPad is a great distraction to keep the kid busy and the rest of the society that has voted consistently to put in charge assholes who openly made education worse every time they could.
And yes, I do think that stupid iPad is to blame even though I grew up with a gameboy. My gameboy had games, it played tetris, it played mario or pokemon. My gameboy didn’t have tiktok or youtube. It’s not the same thing.
I’d argue games are significantly better for development than video. Solving problems, learning game rules, reading game dialogue, separating fiction from reality, etc.
Yes, cartoon and videos have their place, but get off the meaningless shorts and gambling games.
These generations are arbitrary and just lead to sweeping inaccurate generalisations.
Ok, I’ll rephrase it for you:
Do you have hope that people born after 2013 will live happy and fulfilling lives?
I’ll say probably yes, but the world will look very different for them than it did for us. There will be far fewer younger people than today on most continents besides Africa.
They’ll have far more power to shape and change society than most previous generations. Boomers will be almost entirely dead when they Alphas reach adulthood. GenX would be next on the death chopping block, but GenX is far smaller. So lots of jobs will be open and Alphas and Millennials will be holding those positions with GenX mostly in retirement homes. Millennials are saddled with debt and a lack of lifetime earnings while Alphas are looking like they’re skipping a good chunk of that debt burden.
Taxation on working Alphas and Millennials will be monstrous dealing yet another setback for then aging Millennials. Climate change will also wipe out lots of opportunities. Alphas I think might be the generation to finally give the finger to the generations prior that kicked the can down the road and simply let parts of society they don’t care about fall away. Part of that will mean not caring for multiple generations of aging parents and grandparents where the declining birth rate means a single Alpha may have 8 to 10 aging relatives still alive and in need of some kind of support exclusively relying on the Alpha. This would mean 16 to 20 aging relatives for a married Alpha couple. There’s just no way they can support that.
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I wish they were at least evenly spaced. Alpha should be 2013 to 2028 rather than ensing in the ‘mid 2020s’. Everything with a 15 year gap should be wider in line with Baby Boomers and those before them, or the baby boomers should be split into two different generations.
Also if their oldest members are 13 yo, then its way too soon for me to pass judgement onto generation alpha. A teacher, parent or healthcare worker might have some insight though
As far as I can tell they’re set for marketing reasons, but they actually represent meaningful epochs and how those events effected people in different stages of life.
World war, depression, postwar expansion, civil rights, cold war, internet, smartphone.
Making them all fifteen or twenty-five years doesn’t make sense.
Part of how I maintain hope for the future is not buying in to arbitrary divisions like “generations” of people. They didn’t all hatch in a clutch and aren’t remotely homogenous enough to make generalizations about. It’s right up there with race as a really fucking stupid thing to draw conclusions from
Yes, maybe not the older alphas because they’re too close to zoomers, but definitely the younger. Growing with an enshitified internet, it wouldn’t surprise me if they’ll see social media as mostly bullshit their parents are addicted to.
I wonder how will they say “OK millenial”
