{"id":181425,"date":"2025-12-08T17:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181425\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:44:13","slug":"from-tiktok-to-the-streets-conspicuous-wealth-nepals-gen-z-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181425\/","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":181426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,123],"class_list":["post-181425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}