We're living in corporate dystopia and Gen Z is reacting accordingly

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[@ohgumdrop2208]

I hate when older generations say “your generation doesn’t want to work”. I graduated MONTHS ago and have been endlessly applying to jobs. Most of them I get ghosted by and only a handful have gotten back with an actual rejection email. I’ve even talked to one hiring manager for something I got rejected from to ask how I can improve my resume/cover letter and she said it was perfect for my skill level. The older generation as managers don’t want to hire the younger ones and take the time to train them, while also saying that we’re lazy when most of us are actually trying. On top of that, entry level positions aren’t entry level anymore. Tell me why I need 3 years of experience and they prefer a masters degree for the lowest level job in the field I’m trying to get into? That job literally just requires you to do basic data entry and other responsibilities that can be taught in one week, tops. Make it make sense 🙄. Edit: Honestly, I wrote this when I was feeling bitter and angry. I know that this is just the way things are set up now but to everyone else in a similar situation to me: I hope you’re able to get out of it soon or at the very least, be able to find the optimism in your situation!! I’m trying to do that too :)

[@RecklessFables]

I can speak to this a little since I'm currently working in a big huge corporate multinational. It isn't that we don't want to train, it's that we could never get approval to hire someone who is truly entry level at the costs Americans require. If you need someone to work in a call center, you go to the Philippines... if you need IT, you go to India or Poland. if you need general office work, you can go pretty much anywhere. Everything is remote and in shared documents so why hire Americans? It isn't like our educational systems are cranking out people that are far superior anymore. Other countries that Americans used to look down on have been working very hard for the last 30 years to be more competitive on quality not just price.

[@xandercorp6175]

I only say it when I see someone actually refusing to work right in front of my eyes, in a context I understand inside out and have made repeated attempts to communicate to them in their own terms.

[@ohgumdrop2208]

@@RecklessFables I understand that completely, my older sister tells me the same. I’m Canadian but it seems like the job market/economy in general is following similar trends. I just wish that someone would have told us new graduates how tough it really is and how much harder it will be for us before we graduated. I’m not hating individual companies or even “looking down” on other countries (my parents are immigrants), it’s just an annoying situation.

[@sailorspills3025]

I remember when I first left college and I was trying my hardest to get a job. Everywhere wanted experience. People didn’t help me, they would call me a bum or spoilt

[@goodfortunetoyou]

Basically, you have so many competitors that they don't need you. They have the ability to pick and choose whether and how many resources you are allocated to live on, because you are dependent on people in their positions for your livelihood. You and your colleagues have no other options but to get a job or start a company/side hustle (Something like half of new small businesses fail). Additionally, they are not required to hire you, and they are not required to pay you well. There is no systemic safety net to guarantee your livelihood if you live in America.

[@NathanielHellerstein]

This goes back awhile. Soviet era Russian joke: "they pretend to pay us, so we pretend to work."

[@calvinfinney5083]

Yep, hence all the communist echo chamber arguments on here.

[@Tragicide]

It’s all coming full circle now.

[@arturintete2461]

Then why do the people who lived through soviet russia protest to get it back?

[@calvinfinney5083]

@@arturintete2461 They don't, in fact they are here warning us of how terrible it was. In regards to Russia itself, the really only experienced true democracy for around 8 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, they've been under an authoritarian regime.

[@nightraven2975]

​@calvinfinney5083 Many Russians would disagree on both ends of that statement.

[@gentle_rebel]

My immediate response to people seriously saying "no one wants to work anymore" is: "No one wants to pay a livable wage anymore." - plain, simple, irrefutable

[@prophetzarquon1922]

Indeed. Anyone who thinks any job isn't worth ≥$30 an hour, should enjoy doing it theirself. If employees need 20% tips to earn a living, the prices & pay should be raised 20%.

[@ULTRAOutdoorsman]

"Looks like it was contagious"

[@namegoeshere8458]

No one ever wanted to pay a livable wage. That was never in the plan.

[@smirkyshadow4152]

@@namegoeshere8458that’s why the federal government made the minimum wage It was the bare minimum wage someone could live off of Therefore it was put in the plans, and needs to be adjusted for inflation like all other modern countries

[@prophetzarquon1922]

@@smirkyshadow4152 💯

[@Quixote3]

No no, they don’t want “our children” to have a better life. They want that for THEIR children. It’s nepotism all the way down, baby.

[@picobarco4407]

@Quixote3 , I see you put the same idea I have. Just want to say, you really know how to see what reality really is! Just want to thank you for your writing!

[@nettewilson5926]

Spot on

[@kyleconnor2759]

Maybe if Gen Z didn’t cry all day every day about race and gender, this issue would get more attention. It’s almost like they’re being misdirected…

[@crazyasalways9272]

Not even for theirs

[@AuntNessie-u2e]

So right. They want THEIR children to have the best life ever and employees children living off crumbs

[@cniht]

The phrase "Nobody wants to work." should always be accompanied by "at that wage."

[@dhanurvishnu3035]

Good one

[@SImonDeLikaeble]

Exactly that. There used be guys on the news stating “we can’t get IT staff”. And I’d be like “everyone knows you pay less than your competitors “ It is similar for other jobs - companies that pay properly have a lot less problems finding staff.

[@chrisz7494]

"You dont like to work!" Babe, i didn't sit through a bachelors AND a master's just to be overqualified and underexperienced. I WANT to work. I WANT to be useful to the world around me. But i cant even get an interview Edit: holy crap, y'all are really engaging in the comments. My education is in the environmental field. I believe green jobs are the new frontier and i have a passion for environmental conservation and justice for people wronged by the climate crisis. I am surrounded by many people who are highly educated and occupying necessary and in-demand jobs. Unfortunately, i am facing the unemployment loop of "needing a job for experience/needing experience for a job" and I'm just waiting for that one foot in the door for my life to change. I dont regret the field i chose, but if i had to go back and advise 18-year-old me what to do, i would just say to give yourself options

[@DellikkilleD]

that often comes down to what the degree is for. not all degrees are created even remotely equal.

[@lucyferos205]

​@@DellikkilleDIt's pretty universal for most fields today. How old are you?

[@DellikkilleD]

@@lucyferos205 43, and having dealt with these kids with no work ethic for years, Im over it. And your claim is false. there are a huge surplus of useless degrees, and an excess of limited use ones.

[@LadyIarConnacht]

Thanks to the AI that you love and embrace.

[@w2lf]

@@LadyIarConnacht The tool is not evil, its the companies that make them evil. So companies = evil. Why are companies structured in a communistic and private manner as if its private dictatorship. When we live in Democratic and free country? Shouldn't companies be the same way? democratic and free open. Google Private Goverment this is the whole problem that creates more problems in the long run. It might look in short run that its good and grows the economy, but its the other way around. This 2 words should never be together "Private Goverment" but this is what the companies are now. Hidden communist discatorships.

[@amac9443]

"Why are we giving AI the art?!" YES!

[@lurker993]

Because most of it is worthless anyway.

[@SkySong6161]

Serious answer: Cause the boring gruntwork requires 5-17 different programs owned by about 3 different companies (optimistically) that don't interface with each other on an even the most basic level. Putting together an AI to interface with them and then do the grunt work jobs with any degree of accuracy requires negotiating with those companies (and that's assuming they negotiate in good faith) and reprogramming software owned by a different company. Companies have the money and the lawyers to defend themselves with. Outside of some major animation studios, almost no artists do. And with a modest amount of file formats and no competing software to deal with, the art is just *easier* and cheaper to do. Though make no mistake, once it becomes cheaper to automate the gruntwork stuff, they'll go for that too. But right now, art and literature is the low-hanging-fruit of AI generation.

[@FlipTheBard]

As an artist myself, I felt this one. AI should've been used to do boring demanding jobs like doing a lot of calculations in a short time. Yet the AI bros decided to use it for art, so they could feel like artists themselves, and rather than spend time learning and developing actual artistic skills they decided to let AI use stolen art to make collages based on prompts. So basically, anyone using AI for art is an artist-wannabe that was too damn lazy and too impatient to develop the skill themselves.The "get rich quick and easy" crew.

[@dmoogle2006]

@@FlipTheBard I wholeheartedly disagree. Judge the people trying to pass AI art off as their own art, sure. But AI generated art can have useful insights and discussions around it. Just because it's made by an algorithm doesn't make it not art. Your argument seems more of an inherit fear of AI than an actual criticism of its place in art. Art doesn't belong exclusively to humans. Apes and Elephants are capable of learning how to paint: would you not call their creations art?

[@Zeonixi]

@@dmoogle2006I’m also an artist, and ai “art” is just generated images. There’s no passion or thought or love put into the piece itself. And you are aware that ai’s use bits of other artists work (WITHOUT CONSENT) to make the image?? And the artist gets no money for that?? It’s just plain stealing, but not many ppl outside of the art community know this because the people making all this money off ai don’t want you to. The reality is, if companies and etc can use free ai to make advertisements, they will. And plus, the more people use ai, the less real artists will be needed and wanted, making art an even harder career to pursue than it already is. And your right, some animals can make art, and I would consider it so, because it was made by a living thing, ai is just a machine. Machines don’t have souls, they can help us and I’m all for that, but no matter what anyone says I will never consider ai-generated images “art”.

[@piccalillipit9211]

*Gen Z is reacting accordingly* This is freakishly powerful and observant. I worked with victims of abuse for 8 years - they often used to blame themselves for being a mental wreck... I used to tell them "Its normal to have an abnormal reaction to abnormal circumstances"

[@madison_kr]

I needed to see that today so thank you 💜

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@madison_kr - go for a walk, what ever it is - a walk will help I promise you !!! 😀

[@Mirak-el]

You gotta be crazy to act normally in a crazy world.

[@lucanandrews774]

​​@@piccalillipit9211and if one cannot walk? Or going for a walk equals taking the standard pain level of 3, accrued by simply existing to a six or seven, leaves one needing their rescue inhaler and expends what functional energy they can get out of their body in a day? (chronic illness and chronic pain being the reason for the above, for any record... and standard pain scales stop being relevant when existing itself is painful) Not really up for relying on an exhausting walk and hoping it might make anything better when expending that energy to make a meal and maybe (hopefully) take a shower, or at least wash my hair.🫠🥲🥴

[@blackmagehedonist]

With the shite I recently had to deal with, I needed to see that. Thank you! Like a tell people, I will not bare the burden of actions I had no real choice in taking, and being abused doesn't really give you many good choices. . .

[@Meileehere]

“Don’t you want a better life for your children?” “No, I just want more money.”

[@wafflingmean4477]

"... wait... I have children???!!"

[@LogarAcc]

@@wafflingmean4477 FR. Most of those old male prunes in management/CEO positions don't even know their kids' birthdays.

[@Sirawxy]

Aren’t we all

[@adaml.5355]

Boomers owning all the apartment complexes.

[@izabelaR]

Saw this meme: "Nobody wants to work anymore" is just "girls don't want to date nice guys" for businesses.

[@RutabegaNG]

Damn, that's accurate

[@ginathecookie]

So, so accurate

[@mgntstr]

a dependable and stable income is not good enough, that's booooring! people would rather shitpost on the internet all day and hope for a sponsor to sweep them off their feet one day

[@eugeniabarsukova]

@@mgntstr people would like to afford their rent, is that too much to ask?

[@avalerionbass]

That's true, because both claim they want one thing until you're lured in and when it's too late, you've finally realized that what they ACTUALLY want is not what you signed up for because you were led to believe a disappointing lie and after you've been gaslit into loyalty and some level of dependency, you've been used well beyond a means of mutual exchange.

[@Sarara14]

Boomer: You can't use a fax machine! Doomer: You can't convert to PDF

[@itubemember]

Get you a man that can do both

[@vaderladyl]

Here comes Gen X to save the day.@@itubemember

[@SkySong6161]

I'm over here wondering who the hell still uses fax machines that aren't lawyers or doctors. lol.

[@vaderladyl]

I actually had to and I am not a doctor. You still use faxes, especially over seas. @@SkySong6161

[@angelainamarie9656]

​@@SkySong6161that is a lot of people though

[@lonrot]

The funniest part is that both generations are quite depressing in their arguments 🤣

[@Shinichu]

This

[@iyonah3769]

What are you doing here Lonrot?! 💀

[@Zett76]

**hug** You know, there are people who offer help, for depressed people like you. Get well soon!

[@omarmoramariachi]

Hey Lonrot

[@TerraBlacc1]

Depressing? More like painfully entitled.

[@miriam8376]

Gen X here: its been a corporate dystopia for a lot longer than you guys know. We were talking about this when I was in my early twenties-we just didn’t do it online where it’s hyper visible. Are corporations more corrupt than they used to be? No. Wealthy people have always wanted to profit from people with less without balancing the scales in return. The only difference is that there’s less oversight and less regulation and corporations are allowed to form conglomerates that form monopolies that get away with price gouging and driving inflation. And it all got worse because of the policies that the Reagan administration started passing. This is much bigger than jobs and housing, guys. It starts in laws and politics. Reagan deregulated a ton of industries-essential removing government oversight that allowed for record profits because of record bouts of taking advantage. When people blame the boomers, this is absolutely what they mean. If you want to want a job that’s paying a livable wage at a (realistic) entry level and the chance for affordable housing, run for office and/or vote blue. Corporations will not regulate themselves, and the super wealthy will always value money over people-thinking like this is how they became super wealthy in the first place, after all. Honest politicians who aren’t business-first are the only way to balance these scales. (Beware even the democrats who claim to be business-centered; that’s code for “I care about people as long as it doesn’t damage profits”). My parents had better lives because they had better laws, and better ways to enforce them, and for no other reason.

[@fredblake6135]

Well said.

[@KevinKimmich44024]

Gen X lived through the transition to full neoliberal economy corporatocracy... And now this system is at its end just like the heavy regulated super union economy was at its end for our parents. That didn't work. The corporate system and scam based economy doesn't either. the government is corporate owned and politicians are scumbags like always. There's no fixing this thing as a nation. People will just make little bubbles that are functional within a sea of failure. I think that's how it'll unfold anyway.

[@megt7128]

Honestly I don't think only voting blue fixes it. Corps buy politicians on both sides of the aisle. I believe we need to take a more participatory, DIY type approach to wealth redistribution. There are so many of us peons, boomers and zoomers and everyone in between, with common interests, and if we could just unite around that and against them, they'd be done.

[@sirius8477]

Fight Club already described the Gen X struggles perfectly.

[@Defeat-Ruzzia--Delete-Putin]

Wow, very thoughtful post! Appreciate it. Sometimes these videos seem so negative, but it's good to see all sides. Unfairness is a reality but not a reason to stay in bed all day.

[@hellofriend545]

“The hiring budget is always higher than the retention budget.” They’ll dangle a promotion over your head, then fire you in an eventual round of layoffs because it’s cheaper and easier to exploit new hires who are bright-eyed and desperate to prove themselves rather than build the career of people who are already getting frustrated with their exploitation exceeding the value of their pay. They burn you out and toss you aside. You are disposable, so why not treat jobs that way? :( cynical and disheartening vibes out here.

[@vee1267]

It’s so depressing it makes any foray back into job searching all the more intimidating, because there’s no guarantee of stability and no room to really become a part of something (which is a basic human psychological need).

[@pexoto5093]

Wow this is literally what happened to me Mfs kept asking me (working as junior dev but my responsibilities were actually mid-level) to build a mobile app to get to get a raise. I did. I learned the technology, migrated our base libs to .net core, added some infrastructure. Took me a few months to deliver. The raise never came, and i got fired some time after, in what was supposed to be the meeting where I would get my raise

[@PricefieldPunk]

I wish i had the confidence of this gen z applicant. Most of my Millennial generation entered the work force as a recession started and still got blamed for being lazy by the generation who ruined tanked the economy. Sorry we couldn't afford to buy homes at a fair price while we were in Middle School...

[@ApequH]

YES

[@Bav92]

Dude your entire life is a continuous bull market. 2008 was a blip at this point.

[@Pistolita221]

@@Bav92 lmao, for investors. How much of that has been shared with the people actually making the company function (the employees)?

[@SENSEF]

​@@Bav92 The state of Texas laid off 76,000 teachers in 2011, the largest teacher layoff in Texas history. The Great Recession was much further reaching than just a blip of 2008.

[@thehappyproject7117]

In middle school I was still watching Lizzie Maguire and trying to figure out how to afford Abercrombie and Fitch. A housing crisis was the least of my worries.

[@atomatopia1]

“This isn’t a negotiation” is the power fantasy showing. They don’t want employees, they want desperate worker-bees.

[@BusinessWolf1]

You mean slaves

[@sandermez3856]

the word u r looking for is slaves

[@evanwademan5602]

No they want mindless drones

[@MulkeyBlueQuartet]

​​​@@evanwademan5602worker bees infamously don't really think or act for themselves, so I think ur both pretty on the nose haha

[@stephanos6128]

​@@MulkeyBlueQuartet actually i think some bees do leave the colony and go and make their own hive. or im thinking about ants.

[@shanouboubou]

This clash of generations is actually quite sad to me. It's so clear that the capitalistic system has all exploited us in different ways, taking advantage of each's gen socio-politcal contexte to do it. We should stand together for a better future, not apart.

[@NJGuy1973]

Young people got more in common with old people than they got with rich people.

[@lianashivers4988]

I wish more people understood this.

[@thepanda9782]

it's because of lateral violence. Many Boomers use relative power (due to having access to generational wealth, status as a community member and elder, higher positions within the workforce, etc) to exploit their younger coworkers, community members, and family. Standing together would require many Boomers to let go of the idea that they are perfect beings and genuinely make efforts to improve their workplaces, communities, and families for the greater good. That would require listening to constructive criticism and resource sharing. The boomer generation holds over 70% of all wealth in America right now.....those under 40 have 7%....Remember those with money tend to be more conservative? Boomers are the largest voting block right now, and we've seen waves of extreme conservatism nearing Neo-Nazism at times. It is not a coincidence. They voted for things that helped them, then voted against them once it started benefiting their stock portfolios and house appreciation values. That is why many in Gen Z have taken an unapologetic stance ...previous generations being kind about these differences in 'ideology' hasn't done anything to fix climate change, the workforce, or abuse in family systems. It has just emboldened many older people to continue passing the buck and using lateral violence to cope instead of dealing with the root cause of these issues and changing things so we all enjoy a better society instead of whatever crap show this is. So yeah, absolutely we need to stand together...but that's not gonna happen when older gens don't want to do their part in fixing the mess they created.

[@vaderladyl]

This is precisely what is going on, they are dividing us so we get distracted with squabbles, and not get along.

[@vaderladyl]

Younger ones can learn to not be so dismissive of older gens as well.@@thepanda9782

[@ValidatingUsername]

0:30 EVERY job interview is a negotiation, do not forget that and get the hiring manager to sign your copy of the contract with corrections 😊

[@AnnAndNala]

Totally agree! Corporations often forget that the interviewee is interviewing them just as much as they are. Goes both ways.

[@kapasitorcpt9249]

true but you have to be realistic as well. a business might take a chance but if you say am worth x, you will have to prove it. example - many business are doing flexible hours for office workers now, the expectation is that they still get work done. if you ask for flexible hours but you abuse it or use it to work less, then don't be surprised if you are fired. Same thing with overtime, many companies will say outright we can't pay overtime so once your shift (8hrs) is done go home. If you then do over time and say where is my pay that is on you for not listening to them when they said they can't pay and to go home.

[@ProRaiKage]

⁠@@kapasitorcpt9249woosh. It went over your head 😂

[@oliverfulayter5515]

I mean, you're not wrong, but I don't think anyone was arguing against any of that initially. The majority of people understand that if you abuse the stuff the company gives you, it either gets taken away or the employee(s) get fired. @@kapasitorcpt9249

[@Arachne-qw1vr]

The point is that it's a negotiation

[@ruijie1961]

"Nobody wants to work anymore!" Not for a wage that makes us have to decide between either homeless or starving with how prices are rising. Nobody "wants" to work, not even the older generation. We NEED to work, not want to. Of course, being choosy is bad; but it has to cover the bare minimum needs for living, otherwise there is no point. Thank you for bringing up the bleakness of both perspectives fairly.

[@astraamarante6233]

And a bunch of people are still applying for jobs that don’t give them enough to live off of, but companies will still just pass them by and ignore skilled workers and post on Twitter how “the younger generation is so lazy because I didn’t want to accept any of the 3,000 applications I got!”

[@ThePoisonedReaper]

How is being choosy bad?! It is our human birthrite to live how we want to live! No government shall hold us back financially!

[@Sergei_Ivanovich_Mosin]

"no one wants to work" really means "no one wants to work for 20 year old wages but modern day cost of living."

[@captinzoom]

whats going on. I'm 40 and I haven't meant one Gen z kid like this in the office. They are always so hard working and just over stress everything. The most I can say is that they need to be more brave in doing stuff on their own.

[@Bav92]

I have a few gen z’s in my office. One got caught sleeping by our CEO and fired. The second had a chronic issue where he called in sick 3x per week. The third is still here, he doesn’t really know how to hold a normal conversation but other than that he’s willing to learn.

[@Jon_Nadeau_]

Your company probably does a pretty good job on screening new employees and know how to filter out those who aren't disciplined. T

[@InversePacman]

Because most aren’t actually like that, this is satire meant to portray how the broader gen X and boomers are making them out to be.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

Parents educate them. Blame parents.

[@Bunny11344]

It’s the boomers in the office I have issues with they’re so bitter and refuse to retire yet everyone including supervisors have to walk on eggshells around them

[@atanamorell2]

I'm old (54). Things are much worse now than when I started working. Fight for your rights.

[@markchristiansen5683]

Why is no one mentioning the part where she refers to Squarespace as her father? 3:28

[@ajsassafrass6883]

It's referred in her other videos as her daddy. It means sponsor. Like sugar daddy. You've dated yourself.

[@Douchey_Elkmen]

​@@ajsassafrass6883 fax

[@jabble__]

Because nobody watched it

[@jjn6914]

The sad thing is this is true of most Gen Xers, too. They also espouse the same attitude and manners as Boomers and Silent Generations. My Gen X boss worked through a serious medical emergency that landed them in the ER, even though their millennial direct reports (me and others) said they should take the week off. All the Gen X folks I worked with are workaholics with no real private life. Emailing at midnight, then working again at 5 a.m., another "I just remembered" email at 5 p.m., etc.--they're not helping the cause at all to undo the irrational entry-level expectations for younger generations and the extreme working hours.

[@vaderladyl]

That is the American way of life actually. Other countries are not like that including all generations.

[@Wild4lon]

Extreme working hours are normal. I'm a gen Z and I would expect anyone I work with to work most of the time with little time off.

[@margotpreston]

@@Wild4lon No they bloody aren't. You simply think they are because it's the only thing you have ever known. Wake up mate, because extreme hours are not normal in the bloody slightest.

[@adhaincroi]

I am gen X we were raised in a time of great upheaval and a lot of us were forced to take care of everything ourselves. what with absent parents etc. This is mainly what makes us have the attitude of if I don't do it nobody will do it correctly. It makes it very hard to step down and relax.

[@flowbot159]

​@@adhaincroiI feel this in my bones.

[@sif1083]

im someone who recently graduated with a bachelor's and applied to 20 jobs and i still felt defeated... I feel sorry for everyone who is/was job searching for 2+ years

[@amv240]

With a PhD from an Ivy League in the US I applied to 200 jobs, got two interviews, and one offer. It’s sadly a numbers game nowadays, and it has to be played if you want to get a job without knowing someone.

[@t.l.5755]

No contacts even from your high value high priced school couldn't help you?@@amv240 What did you pay for then?

[@dalimillazan2877]

Oh, I am sorry sweet summer child, I for example apply to 60 jobs in 1 day when I am searching for a job and on average I get like 1 positive answer for 100 applications. Now I have bachelor degree in law and I worked part-times as customer care representative throught my studies, still I am mostly hired into this low-entry level jobs, thats it (5 years in Customer care jobs, with stellar statistics). Change finally came last year/this year (I am 27 now) when I got hired on 8.1. 24 as tax associate in 1 of the "big 4" companies, Suffice to say, I am extremely happy, as I have actually less work and better pay, even tho I work overtimes a lot, etc. its extreme upgrade as now I earn 250 euros more(850 to 1100) (I am form Slovakia - Europe)

[@kyleconnor2759]

What is your PhD for?

[@kyleconnor2759]

A lot of this is on parents for not seeing through the college scam. The job market is always going to come down to the actual value you can offer in a specific role. A bachelors is no guarantee you can do anything close to that. College is and has been a scam for 80% of students for decades now. Only a small amount of majors make sense.

[@stumbling]

Remember kids, destroying your body working 50 years for some faceless corporation who never so much as remembered your birthday is noble and worthy.

[@FalbertForester]

I've seen it summed up as: "In five years, the only ones that will remember all that overtime you put in are your family."

[@EmilyEquinox]

​@@FalbertForester not when you've got a dysfunctional family :( lose-lose all around it feels like

[@andyj1394]

I'm gen X and I am thankful for these gen Z kids. They actually bring balance. I've noticed that most of them are willing to do good work, or at least be taught. However, they don't want to be abused. As more of them enter the workforce, employers just have to be smarter about whom they choose as managers. I have very good luck getting gen Z kids to do good work.

[@supposedlyiamaphilosopher587]

I don't know what to say. Living as a relatively young individual currently is slowly draining my will to live where the question I ask myself is not if I want out of a bad situation, but whether I want to participate in a society that is as abusive as ours.

[@moonman2022]

Both the Mystic and the Troll asked themselves the same question.

[@imperfectly_megan]

I keep saying that though: why are we giving AI the art?

[@hazelhazelton1346]

Because it makes buying art cheaper, and selling art more profitable. :)

[@willythemailboy2]

Because the difference between AI art and human art isn't worth the price difference. Human art will become a luxury good the same way handmade furniture is, as compared to IKEA. When AI can drive a garbage truck or deliver mail as easily as a human, we'll use it for that too.

[@ULTRAOutdoorsman]

@@willythemailboy2Ironically the capitalists' insistence on a car culture has made it necessary to drive garbage trucks in the first place. But at least they have an idea of how to solve their own problems (and as usual, impoverish most people in the process).

[@calistafalcontail]

WE could do something about it by rising up against it, but we let the tech nerds, who dont know ish about creative work, ruin it all. We are really good at complaining online and be loud in comment sections (me included), but we never do anything! You will see more people on the actual streets protesting for men to be let into womens changerooms, than people demanding laws against art theft and the destruction of the job market.

[@Sirawxy]

Because it’s easier to train imo, and it’s profitable. You don’t need more reasons tbh

[@wipis59]

Hiring and training employees is expensive. So when they lay of a thousand of them at once and then hire new staff a year later it costs them a lot of money. So they feel put upon by the employee for having the audacity to ask for more money. But they could have avoided the whole situation by keeping employees on at reduced hours or not expecting constant growth for their shareholders and just calling a year a wash.

[@kenji214245]

The biggest issue right there. Constant growth for shareholders and dividends ruin huge portions of the market how many dramas do we see where companies do lay-offs while still doing record profits anything to keep the books in the green with a minimum of +2%

[@DigSamurai]

If a CEO doesn't perform for shareholders they get replaced. Capitalism is flawed and it might be the worst system out there, except for all the other ones.

[@TonboIV]

@DigSamurai It's not a binary choice. There are no "capitalist" countries, because every country has socialist aspects of its economy and interferes with the economy to some extent. There is no example of pure capitalism or a completely free market. The question is how many socialist policies should we have and how much should government intervene? The problem is that we're getting this question wrong.

[@Nerotique]

I'm gen x. Wages are stagnant and do not reflect the price of rent, food, or utilities. That's a fact Jack!

[@bh5826]

Yes and they were the same before you were born. Some die others live, facts of life kid

[@Nerotique]

OK, Boomer.

[@ominousbiscuit]

@@bh5826Objectively wrong, average wages before a Gen X'er was born could easily keep up with the cost of living. If you think otherwise you don't understand basic math.

[@adhaincroi]

Yep Im Gen X and according to my mom and my grandmother its always been like this. I do remember my grandparents' parents and uncles and aunts always being at work trying to make ends meet. that's why GenX raised themselves.

[@dimpledsunflower]

2:38 they don’t care, literally they’re just thinking about their retirement

[@emomuzz5883]

Anna has pure gold here. This GenXer was born in 1970 when a starting salary of 20k/yr was around the same price as a starter home. We all need to REALLY listen to the Millennials and Zoomes who just want the same deal we did or they are going to find a solution that will benefit nobody in the long run. btw, "boss-Anna" does have some points too. Respect-2-Anna.

[@doraemon402]

Companies are refusing to train employees, which is absolutely pathetic and despicable behavior, creating the endless loop of needing a job to get experience and needing experience to get a job. And even if you manage to find a way through, you'll get an absurdly low salary with a promise of "don't worry, every year there's a revision and you'll get a raise", which turns out to be a 2% raise that will not even compensate for normal levels of inflation (let alone current ones).

[@Sultan-cf5wf]

A job near me had 44 applicants. Through a connection of mine, I found out that this company had: 6 internal applicants and; they only offered 6 interview slots. I was 7th in line. :)

[@mr_0n10n5]

I had older relatives who complained I wasn't working after I quit my job to go to college. Then complained that I quit college to work a 9-5 (it was a good white collar job). I would be winning if I moved out when I had the chance in 2021 😂

[@livinglifeleona]

I regularly peruse the job boards and I've noticed a concerning trend. Employers are expecting HIGHLY qualified people (Master's degrees, PhD's, 5+ years of experience) to work either low paying jobs or jobs that very obviously are 3 different jobs combined in one. Example: HR-Front Desk-Secretary person needed with 10 years experience for $75K.

[@TreeHairedGingerAle]

All of this ☝🏾✨

[@brittney3156]

We can't expect companies to fix this. It has to be the people and an actually democratic government.

[@austinlevreault6211]

I'm a millennial and a huge part of the reason I'm in therapy now is that I can't find a job, or afford a place of my own to live. I majored in STEM can't pay my student loans. My thinking keeps taking me back to the obscene wealth inequality we have today. No more billionaires OR Corporations valued over one billion dollars is as far as my thinking takes me.

[@RutabegaNG]

Who do you think owns the government? As long as lobbyists can buy politicians, it _is_ the companies that will have to fix this.

[@bramvanduijn8086]

Vote, sure, but don't think that is enough. You need to set up social structures yourself. Get about a hundred people together and you should have enough hands and brains to cover basically all required skills to have an independent (not isolated though!) and stable society. Then support each other in as many ways possible. The more you support each other, the less dependent you are on government or business, so the more power you have when negotiating with them. This gives tons of options, working as much as you want is one of the mayor benefits. If at all possible get a derelict block or plot of land and build houses, that should allow your community to massively reduce the living costs for its members. With as added benefit that living in the same street increases social cohesion automatically.

[@SkySong6161]

@@bramvanduijn8086The problem with that is if you think the corporations and the government they own are gonna *allow* something like that... I get you mean well, but that is gloriously naieve. Get a community together yeah. But then arm them. You won't be left alone unless you can *make* them to leave you alone. And sometimes that means making sure they aren't around to be a problem.

[@tranquilclaws8470]

@@SkySong6161 Congratulations, you have created a gang. But seriously, once gangs become large enough and are forced to actually manage their people and territory, they become sovereign nations in their own way.

[@KBos72]

I'm 51. (Not a boomer, Gen X technically) I never wanted to work. I mean, I did because I had to, but want? Nah. I think you can divide older people into two camps (I'm generalizing), some who totally get that housing affordability is off the charts, and have been suffering through corporate bullshit all their lives and are secretly, but genuinely, rooting for Gen Z to topple the whole thing. Or, the people who are so out of touch that they can't even conceive that things could possibly be different or why, seeing the world as it is, younger people might not want to participate. But, then, you know, Gen X has always been described as cynical and y'all are our kids and nieces and nephews, and we love what you're doing.

[@LeadrynMcKrotch]

The push for people to become sociopathic is kind of wild. Like why is empathy and compassion considered weak? Why is having emotions bad? Like we do know to not have empathy, compassion, and shows no emotion to sad things is sociopathic behavior. So why are we told to act like that?

[@strangelyukrainian7314]

If they say, “nobody wants to work anymore” the only response should be, “nobody wants to pay anymore”

[@JessicaMorgani]

If salary doesn't pay for the cost of living to work in the job then yeah I'm becoming a youtuber. How was this ever a missunderstanding?

[@vaderladyl]

So who is going to do the important jobs like doctors, teachers, lawyers, policemen and so on?

[@Jasondurgen]

@@vaderladylwho’s going to pay them properly so that there’s no incentive to drive folks to those careers outside of their moral compass?

[@Jessica-ch1yi]

@@vaderladylyou think people should do those jobs even when they aren’t making enough to live off of?? No.

[@vaderladyl]

Ok how are doctors, lawyers and such not getting paid well? You are not getting my point@@Jessica-ch1yi

[@vaderladyl]

I am talking about the important jobs that are already well paid. Who are going to do those if every one wants to be a youtuber@@Jasondurgen

[@stephanimahl]

amazing dialogue! I relate to both sides, and this reflexion made me empathyze so much with gen Z. It's like they received a ruined, comdemned, hopeless reality world, without even the chance to dream of a better future. Must be tough.

[@kieronfarley1924]

I’ve been legit saying this, AI and automation is only an issue because we’re living in a society where we all have to work long hours for extremely little. With automation we should embrace it and allow ourselves to work less as technology picks up the slack, we only works sake anyways.

[@firebreathingchickenduck4936]

"You dont want to work!" I dont want to work at a job that is going to kill me

[@samuelbarrett5701]

Ive spent so little money on myself these past years that to hear somebody say i live beyond my means is demonstrating their ignorance. Oh, and yes, i do know how to use a fax machine. I also know how to work hard and work well - and will happily do so if compensated appropriately.

[@InJeffable]

The world my Baby Boomer parents entered the job market in was very different from what Millennials and Gen Z are facing now. The cost of living alone makes the 2020s and, say, the 1970s not really comparable. Baby Boomers weren't paying over half their net income to rent a one bedroom apartment like I'm doing now. I'm making $40k a year and just getting by. For me to live comfortably just as a single person (forget about having a wife and kids), I'd probably have to make $60k a year.

[@jessmith7324]

Try 70K. Im making about 60k and still working through it

[@InJeffable]

@@jessmith7324 You're probably right. The funny thing about that for me is that the owners of the apartment complex where I live have a so-called "affordable" rent option (which is not what I would call affordable, but I digress) for people making less than $62k a year. They're basically saying that if you make less than $62k, you must be struggling financially. That's wild to me. Just 15 years ago, anything approaching $62k would have been an awesome salary as a single person.

[@Pistolita221]

@@jessmith7324 Depends on where you live, in Wyoming it's cheap AF to live, but in NYC and LA and Chicago, where the work is? Oof, 70k is enough in meh to bad neighborhoods. My college town of 120k it's rare to find any property under 500k. I would say the median is between 600 and 700k, meaning 70k is 1/10th the price of the MEDIAN house. Absolutely INSANE, especially with these interest rates.

[@jessmith7324]

@@Pistolita221 True. Big cities and college towns are the most expensive because capitalism. Also too, big cities anywhere in the world tend to be most expensive. London is in top 5 I think

[@Pistolita221]

@@jessmith7324 Indeed, even in the East, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Toyko, and I'm sure India will create a city comparably expensive, as well as Africa. Cairo and Lagos are beginning the climb.

[@Sheisme120]

I love how we younger people are such pros at setting boundaries and calling things out for what they are.🙌🏻

[@mxm7647]

I love that " nobody wants to work " comment. That's what greedy owners say all the time. People want to work for decent pay so they can afford to live. People also want legal contracts with no loopholes. And the greedy owners? There is no chance they will change their ways. Instead, they will try to employ foreigners from countries with worse economies and get away with paying them less, especially when the foreigners don't speak the country's language.

[@mjp152]

The brilliance of this bit is that both sides are correct - and that is the conundrum we are facing collectively.

[@elly7199]

That brought tears to my eyes. I’m 54. I’m stuck in the middle as Gen x with gen z kids. I’m frustrated by those in my generation who are boomers in mentality if not age. Sigh. I am one of those who are cheering on gen z. Go get ‘em!

[@Daniel_Zhu_a6f]

btw, polls in different countries regularly show that there are almost no people who would like to work more for proportional increase in salary. it's not that most people don't want to work, they just can't reliably handle more work.

[@vee1267]

Yes! Terrible pay is only half the equation, the other half is that young people saw what workaholic burnout did to their parents (and, consequentially, their entire families) and are saying “no. I don’t want that. I know my limits and I’m not willing to self-destruct in a futile effort to break those limits. Sure, I COULD do that, but I’d rather live life instead of merely exist. I work to live, not live to work.”

[@stevepreskitt283]

A "proportional increase in salary" is a misnomer - wages have not kept up with inflation by a long shot, so why let an employer rip them off even more? For most folks that have worked for the same employer for 5 years with no adjustment, a 20% increase STILL puts them at less than what they made when they were hired if you assume a (conservative) 4% inflation rate each year. Employers like to complain that "no one wants to work", when it really should be "no one wants to work for a 2-3% pay cut every year".

[@GTRFREAK17]

Nailed it! Most people know this is the reality yet refuse to acknowledge it because that would mean changing their world view and yet I've experienced heaps of people questioning the way I choose to live my life as it's not the predefined path of following societal bullshit, instead it's a gradual building of my own business to work for myself so I don't have to deal with the unnecessary drama of what is offered to us.

[@RealMilester1]

01:49 👈 This, right here, thats what makes me so angry about our current situation

[@meaganthemarionette4899]

0:53 I mean...as a 23 yesr old, she has a point on the instant gratification and possibly beyond livable means thing.

[@Ash2theB]

My GenX co-worker always running around with her head cut off always asking me do you want to switch places like it's freaky Friday. I'm like no mainly bc of her boomer boss takes a two minute phone call and turns into a ten minute one, I use my vacation time to actually go on vacation and 9hrs at work twice a week waiting for email responses.

[@steggopotamus]

Elder millennials and I still don't know how to give myself space at a company. And I'm better at it than most gen x and older that I know. So, power to you. I hope to learn from your work type some day.

[@lateblossom]

She had me at " I need to make 3x the amount" because it's not a joke.

[@bobbytan1984]

Gen Z has IQ and understand their RIGHTS. Very highly intelligent. The old school are brain washed, they need to understand what truely MATTERS!!!!

[@RubikalCube]

"Your generation doesnt want to work" I WANT more hours but im being FORCED to work PART TIME FOREVER for a company to not give me the benafits of full time in a minimum wage job

[@DrakeStardragon]

As a boomer, I have agreed with the position of Gen Z long before generations were given ridiculous f'ing compartmentalized labels in what is actually a fluidic reality (babies are not born in blocks of years). But, simple minds think simple. The best answer/gift I can give you all, read/listen to Robert Sapolsky's Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will. Don't stop fighting the programming of your elders.

[@gardenwonder7977]

I'd caution against sharing academic books. Those are turning into capitalist ways for them to generate money by appealing to certain people. Why do school books cost $300? It's supposed to be real education and it's not. Even these small little books.

[@DrakeStardragon]

This is not an academic book, just a book written by a professor and it costs very little@@gardenwonder7977

[@PokeNebula]

Libraries.

[@DrakeStardragon]

@@gardenwonder7977 It's not an academic book.

[@sandermez3856]

"i suffered so you should have to also" is what everyone who did NOT suffer says.

[@pluglife7381]

I need to make 3x the amount to qualify! Thank you for saying that, I’ve been trying to tell my job this. I joined the military to help with the cost of living and they want me to provide for myself but are not paying me the amount I need to survive. And they keep telling me it’s my fault. So I felt seen with this. I’ve been working on my housing situation for the last 6 months and my paperwork for it has not gone through. I know it’s going to get resolved but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been stressful.

[@DiscordBeing]

Live on base then? Army pay is famously low. They make up for that by having you live on base.

[@pluglife7381]

@@DiscordBeing I made rank quick and wasn’t prepared to move off base financially and now I’m being forced too. But they are not give me BAH or basic allowance for housing so I don’t make enough to afford an apartment off the base and because of a “policy” change they wouldn’t route my paperwork till I get a lease but no one will lease me because I don’t make 3x as much on my basic pay. If they gave me the housing allowance then I could afford. But they’re forcing me out without giving me the allowance and I can’t afford to live off base. Someone would say roommate and yeah but in the military personal space is not a thing and I’d like to just have my own place to come home too. But hey that’s enough bitching.

[@dougdimmadomeownerofthedim2918]

​​@@pluglife7381You should include your BAH & BAS pay in your application even if you haven't received it yet. If a leasing office ask for pay stubs as proof, I would also bring whatever documents stating you WILL be receiving BAH & BAS to explain why it isn't reflected in the given evidence.

[@인형바보]

Well, these labelling exists because of what generations collectively gone through and the events that shaped them. There are always differences in each generation because of how different the environment that shapes them when they grow up, in my opinion.

[@davidcrowther9504]

I love how Anna shows views from both sides. And it is interesting seeing the kind of children that one generation produces which then in turn creates another different one thereafter.

[@megane0125]

Why don't we make robots do the repititive tasks so that humans can focus on being creative and invent?

[@cameronheron8551]

Gen Z is not a generation that will work a full-time job, buy a home, have a stable home life, and live comfortable and balanced work and pleasure until we retire and live off a pension till we die in our sleep. Unfortunately, it is on us to create that for the next generation. I have so much motivation and willingness to work, but I will not give that to huge corporations who don't reward such effort yet expect and demand it. I will work so that I can pay my bills and eat. I will be defensive of management in my skilled position, where I am paid the bare minimum and treated like the biggest problem for not doing everyone else's job. But on my weekend, I will work on my passions; I will fail again and again in my own projects in a shitty apartment, not having enough to start a family and barely paying for the necessities, and like all other Gen Zs, I will die here, or I will hold out long enough to replace the failing, out of touch, and greedy corporations that exist now. Corporations are to Capitalism, what Fascism is Democracy, its enemy. But like Fascism, Coroprationism is unsustainable.

[@Lady_Omni]

A boomer admitting someone else is right is super unbelievable.

[@vaderladyl]

It is like Gen Z admitting that they still have long ways to go in life experience.

[@themaverick1898]

​@@vaderladyl the fact they realize how fucked they are with little life experience shows you how fucked up the situation is.

[@hyah.0]

"Do you have any idea what I sacrificed to make your life easier!?" "Life doesn’t come that easy, what, you think you can fly by life?" Wtf, Pick a side!

[@xXHollysoxXx]

Don’t forget how businesses are foregoing degree requirements as an excuse to pay you even less money! They really could not care less about the average person, that’s why we need regulation laws to protect workers and consumers!!

[@RecognizingInjustice]

"Nobody wants to work" actually means "Nobody wants to be A SLAVE"

[@Oatmeal-Savage]

Don't lay it on the boomers. Their parents had the exact same expectations of them. You weren't around in the '60s, didn't see the hippies, the protests against the Vietnam war, civil rights. Gen Zers don't have a monopoly on activism. They just have the internet, and so can band together into a group a lot easier. That being said, I do have high hopes that the young generation can change things enough so that corporate America loses its stranglehold on the country, the western world, and the politicians.

[@vaderladyl]

Yeah, they think we didn't have struggles and all was honky dory for every single member of the Boomers and the Gen X.

[@vee1267]

⁠@@vaderladylwe know y’all had struggles, every generation has its own struggles. The infuriating part is that so many boomers don’t want to acknowledge the struggles our generation has to face now, and the reasons those struggles exist.

[@Digger-Nick]

@@vee1267 The problems lie entirely with gen x. They created and voted for this mess, raising their kids to do exactly the same...

[@kylesmith2145]

​@@Digger-Nick at no point has gen x ever been a majority of the voting population, and in the current business economic world gen x only just started gettimg into high business, political, and cultural leadership in the last decade. We are still in the world that has been envisioned by the boomers; that being said the world envisioned by gen x seems even worse somehow

[@jewels3400]

Y'know, I totally see how that would make you think that that is a counter argument. To demonstrate what's really going on I will use me as an example. Us Gen Z are inheriting a jack awful setting. The world might come to an end, the world might go to war again, people are starving. Let's say that we had the chance to get into positions of power, or that we had the time or money to make decisions. We would be a bad generation if we not only didn't stop climate change, but FURTHERED it's spread. Us doing that at this point in time would seal the fate of the planet. That would make our children hate us, truly. Much more than Gen Z dislike you right now. We're on the chopping block just as you as soon as we get into positions of power, which won't be for a long time. All of the decisions affecting the state of the world right now are mostly impacted by the Boomers. It's not a sympathy game, is a, "who has the opportunity to decide?" Game. People your age are shills, their greedy, they hate the younger generation. Of course, most boomers do not, because it's obviously also about class divide. Rich/high middle class boomers think in those ways, not you. It's not about who has it worse, it's about who has the opportunity to make decisions.

[@Robian_]

The irony of them calling us lazy, when most of them aren't willing to train fresh grads anymore and entry level positions require multiple years of experience😂

[@bastianogr4960]

A couple of years ago I wouldn't have imagined to ever say this, but the corporate world and politics have pushed me onto the side of Gen Z. And I'm Gen X and supposed to hate the young ones. But come on. All they're doing, is what we older ones have never dared to do in the job world: setting boundaries and standing our ground. Yeah, maybe some take it too far. But in general, they're doing the right thing. The corporations are the ones that deserve all the backlash.

[@Anleifr]

they realize we are all corporate slaves and want no part of it, I am in agreement with them. I have felt the same way for years now a whole generation is saying it. I work in IT, it is 100 times worse because you have to be oncall and expected to be available 24/7 or during your rotation, yet they will only pay salary so you don't get overtime!

[@FiveMCity]

The mandatory overtime and understaffing.. This can't just be me, has to be happening to others as well..

[@jacobruiter592]

It's in nearly every employment sector. Corpos don't want to pay a fair wage and aren't willing to hire on with these restrictions. They'd rather outsource employment or make a handful of compliant workers take on more responsibility and work with little to no increase in pay.

[@ry6554]

“Fine.” “I’ll do it myself.” The Indie Game market is booming. And I’m a goddamn ICBM.

[@robnask]

There was this bearded dude who published a book on 1848 about how these problems would arise and what we should do. And this other Russian balding dude who wrote even more books on the matter. I think we should take a look at those and, maybe, you know,... Unite.

[@xandercrews4729]

Yeah and he was a loser, whose ideas lead to the deaths of millions of people

[@picobarco4407]

@robnask, I agree with what you say. Reading history going back to 1800's is really good! Thanks for your historical Approach. I really like historical approaches to issues in society.

[@willythemailboy2]

And that same bearded dude saw how his ideas were being used and had completely rejected them by the time he died.

[@ominousbiscuit]

No, because after they "united" they got exploited by an even worse system than what we have today. And I'm not defending our crapitalist system, not at all. But hoooo boy you don't want to go down that road either. At this point just seek God and accept that everything humans set up, collapses.

[@msmarya100]

Haha and the society built on the ideas of said dudes birthed the "they pretend to pay us, while we pretend to work" joke referenced a few comments up.

[@nutriapeluda]

Never been prouder of a collective group of people🥲

[@nathanbrady8529]

Just remember, paying a peasant $20/hr makes prices go up. But paying an executive $10,000/hr has no effect on costs.

[@beccafranklin6683]

It is very hard for young people today. When the previous generations had little hope of owning a home and getting into the limited amount of “good" jobs, they must have very little hope. Over the last decade I’ve started to realise just how impossible it is to afford a play to live, food, a decent standard of living and raise a family.

[@monac6934]

The AI portion is so well said. Why does AI get the art? It's wild when it can open up so much room to a shift job market of creative-based jobs. Life CAN be that way if AI was used as a tool designed to help us not take the craft away from us.

[@livingliminally]

"Why do YOU want that? Gross." 💯

[@nicholaswilliams6475]

“Nobody wants to work!” Did you expect us to? Who wants to spend a third of their life being forced to do things for other people?

[@scorpiodragon42]

I think the idea is people need to work for society to function. So you should find something you like. I would like a 4-day work week though, and maybe some more vacation time.

[@ConanDuke]

We've been living in a corporate dystopia since before I was born.

[@notsure1135]

I’m Gen X, I never wanted to work. I still don’t. My father was an insufferable cun2 who worked long hours and filled him with sanctimony due to his work ethic. Guilt trips and struggle sessions. I did overtime and clocked 55 or more hours a week for a bit and it just made me irritable and loathing life. I work a fraction of that now, you get fucked over by enough companies… I just want enough to live and keep my computer maybe 4 years behind the curve. Don’t need expensive guitars, I can just grab bargains. I’m just waiting to die at this point, bring it.

[@GeorgePalmer-m8m]

I came in at the tail end of the baby boom. It was a very different world back then. News stories about the Vietnam War came to us on the television. Kids protested that war on the street. However, the young people who fought that war were baby boomers too. It's impossible to say how badly that war shook our confidence. It's hard to generalize about as disparate a group a generation is. I heard that there was over seventy million people that made up the baby boom. You can't cover them all with the same blanket. For better or for worse, kids during the baby boom were far more sheltered than they are today. When I was a kid it was a very big deal if the skin magazines showed just a glimpse of a woman's pubic hair. It's a part of growing up for kids to suffer reality shock when they enter the labor force. There often is resentment between generations. Many of the boomers did drugs in their youth. I'm one of the casualties of that, but I don't hate myself anymore. Life is still good for me now.

[@MrReese]

I am an older millennial and I am not any different honestly :D. I mean I don't care for social media and all that, but regarding the work landscape I couldn't agree more.

[@user-lk9wy7hi1d]

Picking up phone calls outside of working hours should be a non-negotiable

[@cbpostservice]

The problem is the government not controlling this situation better. You shouldn't have to be disabled to have help to live. These bosses are ridiculous and shoudn't be allowed to do control people with time and money.

[@seanwieland9763]

1:20 Because real-life is work-or-starve. If you don’t work, you will be homeless alone and starving in the gutter.

[@Xaim023]

I'd honestly rather starve than work but my dog needs me

[@aaronpridemore1447]

Funny how “work-or-starve” didn’t pervade the archaeological cultures we’ve studied but does pervade capitalist societies.

[@seanwieland9763]

@@aaronpridemore1447 all societies are capitalist. Working in the fields as a farmer, fishing, hunting and gathering, is still work!

[@ryannovis8748]

“I didn’t see the line outside for this position” - meanwhile every decent job posting on LinkedIn has 500+ applicants

[@adampkalb]

I like how clever Anna Akana's acting and writing is to talk in a spoiled Gen Z way, but say insightful things that show she is still taking unfair employment wages and housing crises seriously. People want to work, they just do not want to work for less money than they need to make ends meet, so "no one wants to work anymore" is usually only a half-truth used to mask the other half of that statement that is a lie.

[@davidvondoom2853]

Agreed. People are willing to work, if it benefits them and they can progress forward. It's exploitation they are against.

[@BladeRedwind]

"No one wants to work" is what employers say when they feel entitled to employees. It makes them sound more entitled that any other generation of bosses I've ever heard. No one is obligated to work for you and you sound like an asshole whining about how you can't get employees. Hm. Maybe instead of whining you should offer competitive pay and benefits. Give your prospective employees a reason to come work for your VS some other employer.

[@Satsujinki1973]

Is it a spoiled Gen Z way? Or is it the way someone sick of being blamed for "EVERYONE ELSE'S BULLSHIT" talks? And I say this as a GEN-Xer.

[@AnthemUnanthemed]

​@@Satsujinki1973honestly I think its so extremely warranted, especially rn, seeing as gen z's favorite app is being taken away for being "too effective at grabbing attention" while they are still playing catch-up to youtube, the communication or lack their of between generations is frighting and its already started to cut into peoples rights

[@spacebar9733]

Spoiled? Idk if I agree with that but if someone can explain I’m open to understanding maybe I’m missing something 😭

[@weepingfrenchman5620]

No one should want to work for corporations exploiting them.

[@kathryn924]

i've been job hunting for so long and only had one job. no i DONT want to work. but the reality is that the current society only values those who work. those who can't work or find work are labelled as lazy, incompetent, selfish, freeloaders, and more. the 8 hour work day and 40 hour work week is unsustainable to so many people, and those who are able to keep up with that are often chronically burnt out. but in most places, you need to not only have a job, you have to have a *well paying* job in order to sustain yourself. where i live, you need to be making at least $25/hour in order to afford regular expenses, including rent, car insurance and gas (or public transit passes), groceries, hydro (electricity), heating, cable, internet, and then some. i have an undergraduate diploma that doesn't seem to really matter and i don't think my bachelor's degree will either. i don't want to live with my mother my entire life. it's bleak when i look at single bedroom apartments that cost $1800 a month and see gas prices go past $2 a litre ($8 a gallon). sorry for the rant akdjskd. it makes me so angry to be called lazy when i'm trying my best to set myself up to succeed and it's not working.

[@mrrd4444]

"Living way beyond your means" is so funny because that's just. Paying rent. The most expensive thing a majority of people are paying for is a place to live.

[@R3X554]

iv gotten tired of screen time. i require a goal to chase

[@haydensevere4052]

go Gym go BRRrrrrrrrrr

[@themeeseman6950]

Me too, try to think of something cool that you maybe could make money from or the skills you would learn from doing it would be valuable. And do it/document it in some way. That’s what I plan to do shortly

[@R3X554]

Same here just looking for ideas🙃when you achieve smiles, you get paid.

[@R3X554]

@@themeeseman6950 true just buillding up skills. Our future might be i.Robot movie hehe

[@69SalterStreet]

I agree with a lot of what you said. I would still caution younger people about becoming someone that only thinks about themselves and cannot work as part of a team. If you can’t be dependable in your little office job, if you never volunteer to help others or expand your skills, then you won’t be that person when there’s an opening at your favorite start up or charity or whatever you’re really passionate about. A lot of people use the current State of things as an excuse to actually act like a big asshole and treat their coworkers like garbage. Don’t be anybody’s fool, but don’t take advantage of anyone either.

[@Karlandra]

Gen X sitting here with popcorn... (Yes, we exist)

[@vaderladyl]

We are always caught up between these imbecile squabbles. I am so over it.

[@starsinger5935]

I love Gen Z. I feel us Millennials are keeping hope alive meanwhile Gen Z is standing on business. Love that for us

[@beckyweiss6072]

Gen Z needs to look up the Occupy movement if they dare accuse Millenials of any of this. We almost succeeded too 😭

[@Justyna-dg4hs]

also as i observe my friends for years ( i am 29, theyre 20-25) i have a feeling the most damage did pandemic to them, sitting at home for 2 years... some of them have serious social skills problems

[@DellikkilleD]

those problems existed well before the pandemic

[@vitoriacaca0]

The first generation to have access to psychologists articles on the internet ❤

[@lilyyoung1002]

Agreed