Gen Z is poised to be wealthier than millennials but despair over economy — ‘they get spammed and scammed, and there are tons of fake jobs out there’

Frankie Llerandi, 21, has been unable to land a single internship in his three years at Michigan State University. He will graduate in the spring with an economics degree and an interest in data analytics, but true adulthood seems maddeningly far away. Most of his cousins have not been able to buy a house or start a family deep into their 30s. Kira Saiti, a 19-year-old sophomore, is more upset about the broader world than her own future. Every time she looks at her phone she sees images of violence and horror, both in the Middle East and closer to home. “It’s kind of hard to look at that and say, ‘This world is a great place,’” she said.…