The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
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#2It's always nobody wants to work anymore at the wages you are presently offering.
It's like concluding we've run out of oil because the price of gasoline went up.
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#3To be called ”Long History” i think it should to extend beyond the current generation.
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#4Modern work is weird. All your energy goes into it. But at the end of the day there's no satisfaction. Just emptiness and exhaustion.
So you invest your remaining time in entertainments, drugs and shopping. Frantically groping for a scrap of joy.
My friends in carpentry call it "feeding the monkey". The monkey must be fed, one way or another.
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#5To be called ”Long History” i think it should to extend beyond the current generation.
Kids these days.
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#6To be honest, people generally don't want to work. In what way is this surprising?
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#7Similarly …
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
400BC
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#8As a long-time software engineer and related positions. When covid started it felt as if the world said "We worked enough we need a collective time off"
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#9Modern work is weird. All your energy goes into it. But at the end of the day there's no satisfaction. Just emptiness and exhaustion. So you invest your remaining time in entertainments, drugs and shopping. Frantically groping for a scrap of joy. My friends in carpentry call it "feeding the monkey". The monkey must be fed, one way or another.
>>But at the end of the day there's no satisfaction.
If that's the case then you need to find a different job. Plenty of people are really satisfied with what they do at work. I've accepted lower salary for years because the job I did was really satisfying and I'm still glad I was part of it.
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#10It's always nobody wants to work anymore at the wages you are presently offering. It's like concluding we've run out of oil because the price of gasoline went up.
> It's always nobody wants to work anymore at the wages you are presently offering.
> It's like concluding we've run out of oil because the price of gasoline went up.
I don't think that these are really perfectly analogous—there really is probably the same, if not greater, supply of workers as there ever was if the wages were right; but, no matter how much we're willing to pay, there's less oil available now than there used to be.