Millionaire podcaster Mel Robbins hits back Gen Z's lazy label—she says they’re stuck in a world their baby boomer parents wouldn’t even recognize

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Gen Z has been branded a “lazy” generation of workers, marked by their TikTok addiction and work-from-home allegiance. But multi-millionaire podcast personality Mel Robbins hit back at critics who slam the next generation of workers—and even encouraged them to step into their shoes and see if they’d like it.

“We sit here and we look at twentysomethings and we’re like, ‘Oh, they’re weak or addicted to social media, or all anxious,’” Robbins said in a video posted to her TikTok last year. “Have you stopped to consider what it’s like to be a twentysomething today?”