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Gen Z Adopting Doom Spending Mentality Due to Negative Economic Outlook
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Why Is Gen Z Spending Like The World’s Ending? - Caleb Hammer
"There is, um, I'm not— I'm forgetting the term off the top of my head, but it's something like doom loop or something that a lot of Gen Z is kind of getting into, where mostly because of the information out there and the algorithms they find themselves in, they think everything's going to be so bad forever, why not just spend the money? Why not just put it on their credit card?"
The speaker identifies a troubling behavioral pattern among Gen Z where constant exposure to negative economic information through social media algorithms is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Young people are increasingly adopting a 'doom spending' mentality, reasoning that if the future looks bleak anyway, there's no point in saving money. This behavior is contributing to Gen Z carrying more credit card debt than millennials did at the same age, despite having access to more financial information.
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