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concern. Fifty-five percent of Gen Z respondents had delayed major
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82 concern. Fifty-five percent of Gen Z respondents had delayed major life decisions because of finances. Sixty-nine percent said housing availability or affordability affected career decisions, 58 percent reported digital fatigue, and one in five said their organizations were scaling back entry-level roles as AI changed hiring. [26] The International Labour Organization estimated that in 2025 the global youth unemployment rate was 12.4 percent. About 67.3 million young people were unemployed, while roughly 257 million were not in employment, education, or training. [27] Then someone looks at the generation standing before that locked gate and says it has failed to launch. No. You did not fail to launch. The runway was privatized, flooded, mined, automated, or priced beyond reach. You were told to learn the future, then charged for access to it. You were told to build a personal brand before you had a private self. You were told every mistake would follow you forever, then judged by adults whose mistakes were made before universal cameras. You were told technology would liberate time, then given a device that turned every hour into a marketplace. You were told AI would remove drudgery, then watched the entry-level ladder begin to disappear from the bottom. The OECD warned in 2026 that generative AI could disproportionately affect youth unemployment because simpler cognitive tasks are common in entry jobs and young people are hit hardest whenever a general employment shock makes it more difficult to enter the labor market. [29] This is not a prophecy of inevitable defeat. It is the reason the transition cannot be left to executives, procurement departments, venture capital, generals, and models trained to call displacement efficiency. The productivity belongs to the people whose labor, language, images, code, behavior, and public knowledge made the machine possible. The time it saves must become human time. The wealth it creates must become human security. The knowledge it contains must not become a private border around the future. Gen Alpha enters this story even earlier.