Part of me thinks 1. They are all getting jobs and rolling eyes at their crazy uncles' attempt at flower power 2.0 millennial version. 2. They are starting out with AI to do the same jobs the millennials did with computers and the boomers with typewriters/ slide rules. ---+ Or it could be like cellphone adoption. Countries that didn't have telephone infrastructure had cell phones before US. I assume it was similar in Europe. Maybe they will also have Bitcoin economies before the US. But I bet the US investors benefitted most from the cell phones adopted elsewhere. And they would also benefit from Bitcoin adopted elsewhere thru portfolio allocation.

Interesting thoughts. I also think Gen Z sees through the libertarian claim that non-agression is the ultimate good or even possible. They grew up through covid and learned there is no limit to how/why force can be brought against them. They learned early that rights are just a piece of paper.

I hope so! I don't really know what they think so I have to kinda imagine how they see us/world around them. Maybe they are conniving in deserted office buildings to overthrow all of us.

Well that got weird

my bad man

i was just trying to imagine kids with more agency. it feels like kids nowadays in the US are stuck inside. there's literature about how each generation of kids roam less and less. so, i was just going for some escapism--somewhere kids are still plotting a world where kids rule.

Ya why is that?

Maybe because it’s so expensive. Not sure. They also just started working, and haven’t had time to accumulate wealth. The ones that have accumulated some wealth have probably stacked some sats too.

I agree with this. Stronger. Closer. Less visible. Need to think about that.

probably also because there's less of them than there was for millennials and for genx before that. think of how many of them are nonbinary, getting ops and all that. and that started with the millennials so gen whatever comes next is going to be even smaller proportion of the population

they "get" digital payments. but don't understand money any better than any other generation. so they'll use what works for their use case Bitcoin doesn't work very well for anything except hoarding.

Yes. And hoarding is uncool to youth. They want action. "What can I DO with it?" Is their question. And the answer better be cool or they're moving on.

If Bitcoin only worked for hoarding, there would not be a whole industry trying to bolt payments, IDs, and compliance wrappers around it. People hoard the base layer because the base layer is the scarce part.

They're busy making and flipping memecoins on Solana or shitstocks on Robinhood. Since there's no real economy on bitcoin, they cannot really make it here, no matter how hard one may work. Buying and hodling 5years+ is only for the rich who can afford to not tap into their savings for prolonged periods of time. Also, young people are just not interested in saving. They want fun and quick success. For those who do make it to bitcoin, there aren't enough corn spenders to make it worthwhile to start anything here and it's been so for quite some time. Which is why the most involved gen z's you get is someone working a fiat job and stacking $100 bucks every few months or so. We may get few highly entrepreneurial outliers here and there but that's about it. That said, Nostr has lots of potential for combining the fun of building/participating in open networks with bitcoin's ability to make more people wealthy, fast. But for that to work, there has to be far more wealthy corn spenders here at the frontier on Nostr. Somehow, it will all workout, eventually. 😂