Professors teaching Gen Z say they're more anxious than millennials and have already given up on the American Dream

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Gen Zers have repeatedly dealt with unprecedented changes—from the pandemic, to the prevalence of social media, to the rise in generative AI technology—and they’re fed up.

Now professors say that the youngest generation of workers doesn’t even want to want to climb the greasy pole. But it’s not out of sheer laziness, as managers of a certain age might assume.