Your story is interesting (I like this facet that you show here in Nostr).
I don't know if you read my long comment. But I will still write.
It's true that those of us who grew up as millennials (I'm late 80's). We grew up somewhat more pampered. My context has the variants that I am from Venezuela and the country had several problems with its currency but it stayed afloat with its oil bonanza that always gave oxygen to the State. But the time came when socialism took over the power of the State and little by little the landscape changed. And in less than a decade that optimism faded both at the level of freedoms and later economically. Giving a panorama of great pesmism for those of us who were more pro-freedom.
But most did not know how to deal with that change. We were clinging to what this was going to happen fast. And well... more than two decades have passed and with one of the worst hyperinflations of the modern age.
It is complex but generational changes can be truncated by previous generations. Here in Venezuela generations Z were born and raised in a state that has made them very pessimistic.
But hey, here we continue trying to give you the tools for freedom that we have at hand to be outside of this disaster.