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Gen Z TikTokers Are Making Cash Cool Again

The ‘throwback generation’ is saving, paying and posing with dollar bills like a haute accessory.

Illustration: Felix Decombat

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Gen Z is embracing cold, hard cash.

After being hard-hit financially by the pandemic and the surging inflation that followed, the generation entering adulthood is meshing their love of late-‘90s nostalgia — think cargo pants, bucket hats and disposable cameras — with a dose of old-fashioned frugality.