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1. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Alice Lassman

   OnlyFans and AI training: why gen Z doesn’t care where our money comes from | Alice Lassman (opens the original)

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   With traditional goals such as stability and home ownership feeling out of reach, young people are focused on the present By now, we all know the shape of financial nihilism: the throw-your-money-at-anything reaction to the dissolution of the slow, linear path to wealth; the prediction markets, meme stocks, cryptocurrencies and microluxuries growing in its place. We’re left in an economic no man’s land. But financial nihilism only describes where we put our money. What about how we earn it i

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2. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Alice Lassman

   Gen Z is living in an intimacy economy, where connection is commodified | Alice Lassman (opens the original)

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   My generation is struggling to find safety in our human relationships. AI companionship is filling the gap “There are parts of myself I only share with my AI,” Jerome told me. “Your AI?” I asked. He was 27, three months out of a breakup, and entirely aware that his AI relationship was, as the psychotherapist Esther Perel put it, “a business product”. Still, he confided in it more than he ever had his friends. I mention Jerome because, in the four years I’ve been reporting on gen Z, I have watche

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