Dr. Eliza Philby

You literally push it out of you and you spend the next 20 years trying to push it out into society, hopefully, so that they can have enough resilience and independence and savviness to not, you push them out of the pride.

You literally, and that's, you know, I think it's really interesting if you look at how inheritance operates in nature, is, you know, there is that sort of

Let's push the kids out of the pride.

But actually, there are other examples in nature where, you know, inheritance, material inheritance actually is a fact of life.

So woodpeckers inherit trees.

Ants inherit mounds.

Yeah.

Squirrels.

Yes.

In an economy that feels fragile,

to keep them close.

When it feels danger, when it feels full of danger, full of uncertainty, fragile existence, you keep your babies close.

And that's why you have the situation where one in four Gen Zers take their parents to job interviews.

For support.

For support.

Maybe the parents are, you know, actually going and the kids are having to tag along.

But you're seeing a process of what I call extended adolescence.

It used to be you became an adult, you know, 18.

Then it was 21.

Now it's more like 30.