Emma Camp wants Gen Z to grow up
Source: Business Insider ·
'Nobody is coming to save you.' A conversation with the anti-therapy pro-capitalist writer and influencer riding the short form video wave.
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Alex S.K. Brown / Courtesy of Emma CampEmma Camp, a writer for The Wall Street Journal's famously conservative editorial page, began a recent video on housing costs with a simple question — and an appealingly simple answer."Can rent control fix the housing crisis? No!" she says.It actually makes the problem worse, Camp argues, by discouraging developers from building new units if they don't think they can charge enough to recoup their investment. The 75-second video has gotten 4.8 million views on X.Camp, 27, has gained traction with pro-free market ideas by riding the short-form vertical video boom.She's shot from 25,000 to 125,000 followers on X in recent weeks after a string of video posts tackling Gen Z's woes, consumerism, and grocery prices that have drawn millions of views.I met up with Camp in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens, one of the neighborhoods that voted overwhelmingly for Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York. (Camp didn't yet live in New York during the election last year,…