For Gen Z the new reality is for other people to make money off your every action, squeeze you for every cent, and not be willing to pay you enough to live on no matter how hard you’re willing to work — or even to employ you at all, in favor of robots and agents. Getting worse every month.

The hope is that the government will tax the absurdly wealthy extractors and offer a UBI so that everyone else won’t have to starve in the streets or bring out the guillotines.