Can Gen Z kids answer basic questions?

I have been watching man-on-the-street interviews of Gen Z teenagers up to 22 years old or so.

There hundreds of You Tube videos. They are both funny and sad at the same time.

It shows that our education system is seriously flawed, and these same people will be running
things in the near future. Obviously this is NOT all Gen Z kids, but I believe it is too big of a
percentage.

You have to watch it to believe it. It is either true, or they found hundreds of VERY talented
actors, but it's easy to tell how perplexed they are by these basic questions, this one for
example. "How many moons does the earth have"

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Archetype · 26-30

Probably because they don't feel the need to learn as they can just ask their phone anything. I find it weird that with so much information at their fingertips they don't bother to retain any of it. I'm only 27 but I read a lot.

JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

@Archetype Are you really 65...because this is the rhetoric of an older white man who tells stories about walking up hill barefoot in the snow to go to school?....

DogMan · 61-69, M

@JaggedLittlePill Check it out.

Archetype · 26-30

@JaggedLittlePill No, I just know a lot of people my age that do not know basic things like how to read a clock (they can only tell digital time), if you ask them simple questions like who is the prime minister they'd probably say Boris Johnson or something like that. A lot people I know my age or just a few years younger legitimately don't know the answer to basic questions.

They could tell you anything about certain anime series and some of them could probably fix your computer.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@Archetype Most cannot read Cursive. 😧