Gen Z AI Millionaires and the Values Crisis We Aren’t Talking About

As highlighted in Pivot5 newsletter today; The The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that entry-level AI professionals are landing total compensation packages as high as $1 million. Companies like Databricks and Scale AI are hiring 23-year-olds into salaries and stock packages that rival (or even surpass) the lifetime earnings expectations of many doctors and lawyers.

Meanwhile, unemployment among new graduates in non-AI fields remains stubbornly higher than the overall rate. We now live in a world where 25 people under 25 can hold packages in a company worth $200,000 to $1 million before their brains have fully finished developing.

This isn’t just a labor market trend. It’s a values disruption.