It's not just the CEO's that can't hear anything over the record breaking profit. It's all of society.
As much as I like to shit on gen-z, one great thing they have going for them is awareness and understanding at levels that were unobtainable for my generation, and it's trickling _up_ to the older generation.
A good example: My generation always ended discussions of counter-productive change with "Well, that's progress!". Gen-z are asking "progress towards _what_?". People are waking up to the fact that common accepted "wisdom" can be questioned.
Sure, there are some very smart and aware gen-zs, just as there have been in every generation. But on average they are as ignorant as anyone else, with maybe a bigger than average bias for apathy.
Obviously we are not better than anyone else, and everyone is different.
LoL, this is what I'm talking about, by the way :D
Also, it makes us older folks uncomfortable in a perplexed sort of way. I mean, it's good, but ... we don't understand your understanding.