No one dreams of labor. The people who “dream” of labor dream of other people performing labor and getting rich off that.
Shit article.
Gen Z does not dream of labor
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#42How they gonna pay the bills?
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Yea right...
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#44It is interesting how I relate more with Gen Z than millennials.
As a 92 baby I feel like a cusper. Cynical, jaded and ironic like Gen Y and X but I’ve grown up on/in the internet and the accelerated mass culture in which we live. Honestly in high school I felt like an oddball but I think I’d be normal if not cool as a zoomer since I was there at the beginning of most of the memes.
I think a lot of millennial nerds grew up with the internet that a lot of their peers did not in many ways, but with gen Z grew up with the internet wether they liked it or not. We are the pioneers that created a lot of this cultural landscape. So millennial nerds feel closer to gen z in this way than other millennials do.
We also developed a cultural immune system to a lot of the bad shit of the internet, like “don’t feed the trolls” and now seeing the rest of the world learn this immune system badly and slowly makes us say ‘oh no’.
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#45Losing manufacturing jobs have many deep effects on the western societies which have not been fully revealed yet.
There are comments here questioning has anybody ever dream of labor? LoL.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's also a bit of over romanticism regarding being depressed and everything being shit which I think throws boomers a curve ball. They see the existential dread response to lack of prospects and think people are like this because they don't have avocado toasts, when the only way out is to breadth first search for Google. If you don't want that, I don't know what your prospects are nowadays coming out of universit…
The average house sold in 1946 cost $5.25K. The median salary at the time was $3K. The average house sold today costs $374K. The median salary is $51K. You can argue that those houses that were sold back then were smaller, but they were also made of vastly better materials than modern home construction, and it's not like people even have the opportunity of buying those smaller homes unless they want to live in a slum…
I agree with the sentiment, but what was the median house price v. the average?
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#47I’m so glad everyone is finally laying off of the millenials
We did it guys!
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#48It's a bit of a perfect storm. You have the rampant wealth inequality and abusive practices that came from decoupling worker productivity from worker compensation beginning in the 1970s with demography. 2022 is average year of retirement for the baby boomers, the largest generation. For at least the next two or three decades labor is only going to get more expensive.
Labor will only get more expensive if:
1. We are too restrictive on immigration
2. Politicians keep pushing to hand out freebies for votes. Stealing the gift of purpose and motivation from many. Forcing them to be state dependents who live troubled, meaningless lower middle class lives in perpetuity.
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I’d just reply with ‘sneed’ but this isn’t Reddit. My more thought out counter would be that every generation since the boomers had this said about them to my knowledge. Even before the concept of ‘western civilization’ existed, you probably had older gens saying this about the youth of the British empire or whatever.
(I love the "sneed" lampshading.) This isn't Reddit indeed but if you want that to change on your browser and to turn your "probably" into an "undoubtedly", this post titled "The more things change, the more they stay the same: A collection of complaints about the youth throughout history" is one of the top posts of all-time on /r/history :
https://old.reddit.com/r/history/comments/7btv14/the_more_th...
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And the Boomers had hippy subculture. Was everyone a hippy? Plato complained about young people in his time too. For reference, I'm part of Gen Z, and no one I know doesn't want to work. It's just that everyone wants meaningful work. This article is ridiculous and unfairly generalizing.
> Plato complained about young people in his time too.
Athenian society was in decline during Plato's lifetime, falling out of the 5th century golden age. His observations were likely lucid.