By Futurist Thomas Frey
Harper James got her first overdraft fee at nineteen—$35 for being $2.47 short on her checking account. The coffee she bought for $4.50 ended up costing her $39.97. When she called the bank to protest, they explained it was “policy” with the sympathy of a recorded message.
That was 2019. By 2029, Harper hadn’t stepped inside a bank in a decade. And she wasn’t alone.
Gen Z had successfully dismantled parts of the prison industrial complex with Ward the Warden. They’d begun revolutionizing healthcare with optimization protocols. Now they were turning their attention to an industry that had either raped them with fees and interest or systematically excluded them from financial opportunity altogether.
Their target: the entire traditional banking system. Their strategy: make it irrelevant.
Continue reading… “The Great Banking Exodus: How Gen Z Is Making Traditional Finance Obsolete”




