Generation Alpha

You know, I'm Millennial.

Like, Gen Z and Gen Alpha, whatever, has taken over that.

But, like, it's just, like, it's stupid to follow trends because trends are so flashy.

They're just, like, spiky, you know? It's just like they're, they're here and they're gone.

Gen X, thank you, that was the one.

Like baby boomers in Gen X who have paid into this system their whole lives and now are gonna get little to nothing from it if a bunch of Gen Z and even maybe some younger millennials and then Gen Alpha and everyone after them doesn't start paying into it or stops paying into it and then doesn't start when the younger ones come of age.

You're basically kind of screwing them over.

And your response to that seems to be tough.

So hopefully

Gen Alpha is feral.

They're the new Gen Xers.

They're just going to be feral and quiet.

If you figure out what you really love, find within that circle what's an authentic experience to you.

Okay, so looking ahead, how do you see Gen Z's definition of luxury continuing to evolve as they get older and have more purchasing power? And do you think that definition will eventually spill over to Gen Alphas as well? Or will they too develop their own idea of what luxury really means?

I mean, Gen Alpha, Gen Betas are still very new.

It's hard.

For 50 years, he argued, America has broken the chain from master to apprentice, offshoring production and stripping the prestige from manual skill to the point that apprenticeships became something people did when they could not get into a four-year college.

Heirloom is a wager that's now reversing, and Walker had a number to back it up, telling a room full of founders and investors that roughly half of Gen Z and Gen Alpha say they do not want a four-year degree at all.

In fact, more than half of the capacity at Heirloom's first location in San Francisco is currently filled not by career changers or retirees, but by young tech workers looking for what he calls a phones-down creative outlet.

So far, the dollars involved are relatively small for these venture-backed startups.

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Who is really in charge when we talk about family decisions? We know that traditionally, advertisers focus their budgets on the 25 to 54 demographic consumers.

Maybe it is a bias that all of us assume whoever earns the money spends the money.

However, this model is obsolete when we talk about digital and economic habits.

Generations Z and Alpha are deeply integrated into family financial choices, and the impact is significant in how we are going to spend our free time, go out on vacations, buy items, and, of course, as we can see now, the way we watch TV.

Generation Z already commands over US $360 billion in direct disposable income globally.

Yeah, so people

that aren't Gen X, if you're Gen Alpha, and you wonder why all towing companies are AAA towing or AAA bail bonds.

I was just about to say that.

My dad was talking about when he was starting his business about calling it Aardvark and having, like, the AA on there so that his would be listed first under therapy.

And this increasingly includes a very different culture than the ones that their grandparents enjoyed.

Gen Z and Gen Alpha are inheriting a multicultural society.

These younger generations are being told that this is a good thing.

But they have eyes.

Yeah, we could all learn from the blueberry.

The Gen Alpha berry.

So where does Elizabeth White come in?

Well, Elizabeth White was the daughter of a cranberry farmer in New Jersey.