Conventional wisdom blames TikTok for Gen Z's shift on work — but the data flips the arrow. The work-ethic collapse showed up in the 2021-2022 Monitoring the Future survey; the quiet-quitting TikTok wave crested later in 2022. The cultural output was downstream of the attitude shift, not upstream of it. When the symptom appears after the disease, blaming the symptom is a category error.
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