genzers, leading the protests and we re seeing so much of it occur on university campuses where you see young people. but the addition of strikes and the labor movement that, by the way, predates what we re seeing right now, there have been ongoing labor protests and strikes in iran for several years, human rights watch was reporting on them earlier this year, but if they re combined with these protests, that really leads to that will help sustain movement. yeah. it s fascinating, assal, we re seeing the younger generation really driving these anti-government protests because usually you would think that this age group would be disaffected when it comes to, quote, unquote, politics of their country and the iran s revolutionary guard corps says the average age of people week arrested is 15 years old. why are we seeing this wave of young people? is it less fear? the fact that they don t have any relation to 1979 with the iran revolution? i think it s all of those
in modern iran. really appreciate you getting up for us early this morning. first off, just give us a sense of where the protest stands right now. are they still gaining system steamy? they re certainly still going at universities and amongst students. what these protests started as was sparked, obviously, by the killing of mahsa amini a 22-year-old kurdish iranian woman for her alleged inappropriate wearing of her hijab, but, of course, those protests have manifested from a women s-centered movement around women s rights to something that goes to the core of the system. you hear chants of death to the dictator death to khamenei who is iran s supreme leader and the youth aspects of the protests can t be understated. you have this new generation of iranians that have come to the political screen at least, the
things. certainly the fact that iranians, for many decade, have engaged with the system in hopes that they could reform it from within. that s mostly been the work of millennials, a post-revolutionary generation or those much closer to the events of 1979 who endured the war of the 1980s with iraq, and so now you have, you know, now you have people who were born long after those events. they re not as tied to those events. at the same time, and this is true of every gen-zer in the world, a new generation that has come of age with the internet. they have been raised with social media. while iran is a country that may have been cut off from the world in many years, for many years, the internet has closed off that gap and so you have young people who are on tiktok, on instagram, seeing the world through the internet and they can juxtapose the world that they live in iran, the closed off society, with the world that they see outside of that. i think that, combined with their youth, being le
would rather be unemployed than unhappy in a job. they are putting happiness at home over their careers, 56% of genzers say they would leave if it interviewed with their personal lives, and 55% of millennials the same, and almost half would not accept a job at company that did not align with social and moral issues. how are they paying for it? luxury paying no to jobs, no thank you, no thank you, how are they buying their top ramen, or avocado toast? either going into debt with the credit card or mommy and daddy are paying for it. it comes back to parenting. i think there was good intentions from the parents back then that said i want my child to be just happy. there s more to life than happiness. this is why many people are turning away from faith.
words to be part of the great resignation solidarity. brian: over 4.5 million people quit last month. why? people say i m not sure where they are going. i get all this from restaurant workers to retail. i don t know where the workers are. i went to a tire place the other day. i can t even get people to respond to an ad. he said i don t know what these people are doing because technically the money has run out but has it? in fact, there evidently is an organized movement, it s an anti-capitalism movement to reduce coercive movements of capitalism and subvert capitalism the best they can. others have speculated it s just genzers who don t want to get out of bed and don t wanted to be part of the process. you couldn t do that in early america. you would die. because you had to actually shoot your food other grow it now we are sitting there and giving money not to work and sadly, if you look at the goldman sachs people who are at the upper level, obviously, they set nonworking labor part