Gen Z has officially decided to skip traditional holiday gifts this year: sweaters, perfumes, self-help books, and go straight for something far more “practical”: cryptocurrency. Because when the world is on fire, the economy feels like a collapsing Jenga tower, and housing is a distant myth, what better present than a digital asset that can vanish faster than your paycheck?
According to a recent survey, young consumers are increasingly asking for bitcoin, ether, and any token that might briefly catapult them out of poverty. And no, it’s not because they think crypto is stable. It’s because they’ve grown up watching banks crash, wages stagnate, and the cost of living turn into a cosmic joke. Volatility isn’t a bug for them, it’s a feature. At least it feels honest.
The industry, of course, is thrilled. Every time Gen Z taps “Buy,” a hedge fund manager gets another reason to purchase a fourth vacation home. Marketing campaigns are already adjusting: “Give crypto, because you can’t afford real assets anyway.”
The tragic irony? This generation is doing exactly what older generations lectured them to do:
save, invest, plan for the future.
The only issue is that the future has been pre-sold to corporations.
Will crypto bring long-term security or just another spike of anxiety? No one knows. But one thing is clear:
When the most “stable” gift you can get is a virtual coin, the economy is far worse than the Federal Reserve wants to admit.
Still, Gen Z laughs, scrolls, and invests, because what else do you do when you’re choosing between a memecoin and a reality that increasingly resembles one?
