Job Insecurity Is a Cohort-Wide Mood Killer—And It's Not Just Personal Anxiety

When broad swaths of your generation feel like the rug could be pulled out anytime, it affects the collective emotional tone the way economic recession ripples through everyone's mood.

This means job insecurity operates as a social and economic stressor at the group level, not just an individual worry—which might explain generational patterns in wellbeing and trust we see across surveys.