Shoaib Gamote

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76 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 21 May

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The Rest Is Politics · Struggling or Snowflakes? The Gen Z Mental Health Story · 21 May 2026 podcast

We hear Gen Z in particular described as snowflakes, not resilient enough, really locating problems in young people.

To what extent do you think it's the structures that young people are growing up with and experiencing?

And to what extent do you think something has fundamentally shifted in young people?

You couldn't just scroll all night.

And that's the youngest part of Gen Z, the ones that are teenagers or very early 20s now.

Wait, what's monk mode?

I want to hear about this.

It's really interesting what you say, because I've been traveling to a lot of places where there's high youth unemployment, but at the same time, not that many good quality jobs.

So a good job defined by economists is where there's career progression, possibility of moving up, security, decent pay.

But instead, in a lot of these places, what we find is that there's zero hours work.

Quitting culture.

Tell me a bit more about that.

Because one of the charges that's often levelled at Gen Z by older people is that they can't stick at things.

What Shoaib had to say was really insightful, but honestly, quite hard to hear.

For a generation who have been told that their worth is intrinsically linked to the version of their lives that they're able to post and share online, this feeling of worthlessness has really created a problem.

He says young people are writing themselves off at such a young age because they feel that they don't have anything to show for themselves.

So next up, I spoke to Freya India.

She's a 26 year old writer and her work, her book, Girls, focuses on the commodification of young women's looks and lives and the impact that that has had on a generation.

I started by asking Freya how she would define her generation.

What do you think of the idea as we hear so often, particularly from people on the right, that young adults today are just a bunch of snowflakes who don't know how good they've got it?

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