Doesn’t it suck to not be a part of generation alpha?

It's very hard to tell since they are literally learning to walk, talk, and not shit themselves in the pants. Some of them aren't even born yet.

But historically speaking, there are couple factors that determine how "great" (as in how well-principled they will be) a generation can be. It's difficult to make accurate predictions, but if you study these factors then you might be able to figure out couple possible scenarios.

Let's start with the factors:

1) Level of education: This is a no brainer, better the education, more likely that generation will be better.

2) Availability of Creature comfort/Affluence: The so-called "Greatest generation" in world history are the ones who lived through the hardship of the Great Depression, fought in WW2, and then went on to the work force equipped with principles, grit, and a sense of honor. There are significant amount of historical evidence to show that generally "hard times make better people".

The above certainly isn't exhaustive. But trying to be exhaustive would mean months of rigorous research. Now, let's think about each factor for Generation Alpha.

1) Level of Education: This is very very questionable. We live in an era where education has gone to shit for the vast majority of people. The whole "x% of wealth belonging to the top y% of people" is a terrible way of looking at wealth inequality but for education, it's indeed a good way of looking at it. And this seems to be happening and not getting better in the US. Only the smartest and/or people with money seem to be getting quality education. Hopefully we can fix that before Generation Alpha starts entering high school and colleges.

2) Availability of creature comfort/affluence: Bunch of millennials (as a millennial myself it feels weird to say this), are bunch of spoiled brats who grew up with the Internet. Lot of us just watched bunch of random YouTube videos growing up, too lazy to mow the lawn or whatever. It's worse for Gen Z kids. They grew up with smart phones! It's an endless entertainment without absolutely no life experience that will make them diligent, thoughtful, and resilient. They didn't really live through hardship.

Now for Generation Alpha? Who knows? Now that the millennials like myself are going to have kids sooner or later. Hopefully we, as a generation, learned a thing or two about values and what makes people "great" and successful. Hopefully we shaped some good opinions on how we'd like to raise our kids. But I think the world needs to help us out a little bit. If the rest of the world is twittling their thumbs on their new iPhone XX, then I'm not too hopeful. Maybe this COVID thing will turn out to be a huge hardship for everyone for the next couple decades. So people will have no choice but to live under harsh conditions. One good thing is that it'll make people strong, well-valued, and "great".

I only got out of college not so long ago, but I'd like to get married and have kids before I turn 30. So I've been thinking a lot about this stuff. I want my kids to learn the values of hard work, critical thinking, and open-mindedness. Even if the world doesn't help me, I'll have to figure out a way to make sure my kids come out "great".