Gen Z demands triple the salary millennials consider financial success

Evidence

Despite mocking millennials, Gen Z shared one of their key ambitions: to get rich through online hustles. It was a quite plausible career path by 2024, when thirteen million Americans—about 7 percent of the workforce—made a living through the creation of social media content. Living completely online, however, gave them skewed expectations about money. In a poll that year, millennials identified 180,900 as the salary required for “financial success,” while Gen Z set the bar at 587,800. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 665

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