A generation does not become powerful because it is young, connected, or angry.
It becomes powerful when it learns how institutions work-and how to change them.
Gen Z: The Vanguard Against Corporate Plutocracy examines the economic and political system inherited by the first fully digital generation: concentrated wealth, unaffordable housing, weakened labor power, financialization, private equity, platform capitalism, political influence, and institutions increasingly shaped by those with the greatest resources.
Rather than blaming one generation for another's problems, Antonios Valamontes traces how Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Gen Z entered adulthood under very different economic conditions-and how those conditions shaped opportunity, ownership, work, and political leverage.
The central question is not whether Gen Z wants change.
It is whether it can convert attention into organization, organization into authority, and authority into durable institutional power.
This is a book about wealth, power, generational change-and what it would actually take to challenge a modern corporate plutocracy.
