{"id":222207,"date":"2025-12-08T17:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/222207\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:46:17","slug":"from-tiktok-to-the-streets-conspicuous-wealth-nepals-gen-z-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/222207\/","title":{"rendered":"From TikTok to the Streets: Conspicuous Wealth &#038; Nepal&#8217;s Gen-Z Uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        What began on TikTok as anger about inequality exploded into Nepal&#8217;s largest youth-led protest in decades. Wall Street Week&#8217;s Michael McKee reports from Kathmandu on how Gen-Z activists, angered by corruption, nepotism, and a sudden social-media ban, mobilized thousands, leading to deadly clashes and the collapse of the government. With similar movements in Morocco, Madagascar, Kenya and Peru, Nepal offers a look into the way social media has made comparisons across economic groups more ubiquitous, causing people to react more harshly to wealth concentration and inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg videos, provided by MT Newswires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What began on TikTok as anger about inequality exploded into Nepal&#8217;s largest youth-led protest in decades. Wall Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,19,17,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-222207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115685201437676231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}