Gen Z Refuses to Play the Game: Are They the Smartest Generation?

[@mchapman9440]

I will never understand how people in the past dealt with this BS. Why was everyone ok with this lousy work system. I have no life except work, work and work. And it's like we are forced into this shit otherwise we will starve and be homeless.

[@rm847]

I could answer that for you but I can only use the word training here, Pavlof and Piaget did some excellent work on this subject.

[@TheInternetComplaintDepartment]

They dealt with it because the dollar hadn't been devalued by %97 yet. Unchecked immigration hadn't, yet, filled up the so-called "unwanted" jobs with borderline sl*ve wages. That force crept into every single facet of America. Company housing is coming.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

@@mchapman9440 it’s fear based system

[@shiptj01]

Because the average man could get a good wage, a good house, and a kind, feminine woman that wasn't overweight. Those days are over for most men.

[@user-zo1pk7bi2o]

Back in the past, the Proles were imprisoned in debtors prisons, put into indentured servitude, tortured, mutilated, and enslaved with actual chains. *The rich want us to return to those times.*

[@renofry]

The worst part about working is not only putting up with coworkers and customers you dont like, but being so exhausted and stressed out you barely have the energy to clean your apartment. Your weekends are still preoccupied doing work such as laundry, ironing, vaccuming, dishwashing, grocery shopping etc. There's literally hardly any 'me' time anymore as a prol.

[@summerwind4590]

Never has been as a prol that is why the revolutionary class was always the middle class and why the system is trying its damnedest to crush them back down to prol status

[@electrodynamicorb6548]

Who the heck is ironing?

[@rm847]

1) Mommy trained us to care, simp, be loyal, provide. 2) Society trained us to work, bow, be a utility and man up! 3) School trained you Obedience, Compliance, workforce Preparation and no Self-Discovery. 4) Go through life trained to be extorted by everyone! They Trained us to be what THEY need, they all lied to us top being their workhorse. Stop caring, stop helping, stop spending, walk away from society and let it collapse. Save, invest, retire early! "Man up (take it and don't defend yourself)" "A real man would (be pillaged by them)" “Take it like a man, (and be extorted)” “The man provides (Live's poor and owns nothing).” Wake up, brother, wake up!

[@jermainemyrn19]

You're right and I'm going to watch it fail in another country asap

[@grim9488]

🫡🫡🫡🫡🍿🍿🍿🍿✊✊✊✊

[@ScottPeterson-ox7gh]

I stopped caring about society a long time ago because it never cared about me. Even as a child I wasn't shown any support and that's back when times were supposedly good! As a result, I always wanted to see society crumble, fall apart and burn, and that is exactly what's happening now. I will continue to watch things get worse and do absolutely nothing to help. It's all divine punishment as far as I'm concerned.

[@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717]

The Psych Industry also plays into all of this. If you don't like the system and it's affecting your health, you have a problem and need to be fixed...not the system.

[@rika6767]

Re-train your own mind. Start breaking down all you have learned. Build your own foundation towards financial freedom.

[@kludgedude]

We’re just financial intestines. Money is just passing through.

[@Tamarind525]

underrated comment. damn, so true.

[@mistol2130]

But no nutrition is going in, only ramen

[@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717]

Have some intestinal fortitude, bro!

[@walterlippmann4361]

circulating

[@matane2465]

Could you talk about how Christmas is a capitalist holiday and it's really only for rich people. I hate being poor and still being expected to buy presents for other people. Christmas always just puts me in further debt. I hate Christmas. Poor people shouldn't be forced to celebrate Christmas.

[@cryptocracia3479]

make up a story about going on a vacation overseas and disappear for some time.

[@who_we_are______5926]

Same, I see through the lies of Christmas. I use to feel magic like now all I see are lights hanging.

[@cobrakaiisback4709]

Give your family members a card that says I love you. You can buy like 40 cards at walmart for 5 bucks. If your "love" is not enough then your family does not appreciate you. Maybe buy a few gifts for the kids under 16 because that is who christmas is for but once you are an adult it is more about survival.

[@RoyalFizzbin]

You don’t need to buy gifts to celebrate Christmas. Watch Rudolph and make some hot cocoa. Done. Christmas celebrated (sort of).

[@dalton6108]

My girlfriend was talking with her sisters and mother just enjoying life on a group call. All of them were eating, baking cookies, or watching their kids play in the living room. The husbands work shifts that are 10-12 hours long 5-6 days a week. One of the husbands lives at his job occasionally and doesn’t come home. All so they can live the life they have of taking care of the kids. I don’t want to seem sexist, but the women have a chill life. My girlfriend is the only working sister. It feels weird, but what a life. They were complaining about having nothing to watch or being bored when the kids go to school.

[@shedontlove8490]

I work as a software engineer. I have more than 6 years of experience in this field. I have a good salary. But fuck my ass, i still feel like a 9-5 slave. I'm so tired with these constant daily meetings, stand-up meetings, Slack, Jira, Agile development...Back in 2017 I really loved programming and IT in general, but now i fucking hate it. I feel miserable when i realize that i need to tolerate this bullshit again for another day, another week, another month. For fuck sake! And also, WFH turned to such an overrated scam, at least to me, because now my home is a place where i work most of the time, though before it was the place where i went to rest, to recharge after work, to be lazy and get comfy. Now WFH format absolutely killed that mood, and now my house feels like An Office 2.0. Sorry, i just needed to vent somewhere. But i think that Gen Z are the first BASED generation that sees through employer's bullshit and just refuses to participate. I'm only three years older than the oldest zoomers, meaning born in 1994, and i completely agree with that attitude. Work just doesn't worth it anymore, we need to find a better plan for our lives, or someone would find that plan for us. Easily said than done, of course.

[@smlorrin]

As a fellow software engineer, I feel you, although I *love* WFH. I hate having to go into the office.

[@who_we_are______5926]

I wish it was as easy as, make an app reach out to all these men and start a movement to create change. Like a civil rights protest but I don't think anyone is brave enough

[@RoyalFizzbin]

If salaries had kept pace with costs in the same ratio our forebears had in the ‘70s, I doubt anyone would be complaining. Work is not the problem. The problem is what you get in return for your efforts

[@Brijustmeh]

At this point I give up. I lost my job back in May this year and haven’t found anything since then. Just ghost jobs and lying from companies everywhere, I’m tired of if it.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

I know people unemployed for 6 months

[@unkono]

I don't see things getting better.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

Getting worse very soon

[@DMCGREEK]

If I'm paying $400 for a massage, that better come with a Happy Ending!

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

Any idea of that and the cops come, just getting a rise is a crime

[@jermainemyrn19]

I got a raise and my landlord said she wants to raise my rent because her personal expenses went up.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

@@jermainemyrn19 any gains we make get wiped out with inflation, on paper I look good, reality scraping by

[@mistol2130]

Never talk about your raise

[@A_Mind_For_Change]

Almost up-chucked when you said 80/hrs a week 💀😮‍💨

[@summerwind4590]

Those weeks sucked especially when you are salary and just making straight time

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

If your minimum wage it’s 80 and still poor

[@jeffreymassey5541]

MS you provide unvarnished truth and prospective of the real truth of what is going on out here. Your videos are therapeutic good brother. ✅💯👍🏾

[@Tamarind525]

Inflation calculator says $200 (of unemployment benefits) in 2024 = apx. $350 in 2004 dollars, the last time it was raised. That’s a 43% reduction in purchasing power in dollars alone; does not account for shrinkflation or rising cost of basic necessities. :(

[@sumtoast6447]

My favorite pastime is to drink beer until I'm 3 sheets to the wind and debt maxxx.

[@paulpsycho78]

Wages just stopped growing in like 03. You mention it they look at it like your crazy

[@TheDragonofRevelation]

They stopped growing before that. It goes back to 1971.

[@smlorrin]

The minimum wage in the US was $3.10 in 1980. In many states, it's still $7.25. In 45 years, it increased by $4.15. Nobody seems to care.

[@smlorrin]

@@TheDragonofRevelation What is the issue with 1971 specifically? I looked at the history of the minimum wage, and I don't see anything particularly bad that happened that year, so I must be missing something. Perhaps it's not related to the minimum wage?

[@TheDragonofRevelation]

@smlorrin Ah, this is exactly what public school is designed for. The cost of living began to inflate in the 1960s but the cost of living really began to explode after Nixon took us off the gold standard in 1971. I suggest you look into the explosion of prices after we got off the gold standard and I also recommend you look into charts that compare American worker productivity versus wage increases. It'll blow your mind.

[@summerwind4590]

I went to subway and a combo meal for 3 was north of $45 I remember the $5 foot long

[@15Daniels]

10:00 if you were taught how to take care of your body properly in school, you wouldn't even need to pay this money for a massage... As a person who used to be a personal trainer, massages are the least productive thing you can do for your body to make it feel better. Massages are completely superficial. Stretching goes deeper than that, as well as exercise, and having a proper balanced musculature.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

@@15Daniels I visit a professional stretching location. Massages are the only time I feel my hamstrings less tight

[@ASTRA1564]

I can’t even afford my student loan payment’s.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

I cannot afford to keep feeding the roaches?

[@grim9488]

I just want sum azz dawg 😞😞😞✊✊✊

[@Yggdrasill8]

Lol 😅

[@ennuiblue4295]

I'm so behind I'm first 🏆

[@ennuiblue4295]

​@@rm847 I already had early access and it was a joke

[@danielb3863]

Prisoner release ends for me mentally after lunch time on Sunday. From then full concentration on the coming work week and getting ready.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

That sounds awful

[@TheInternetComplaintDepartment]

I don't even know what to add. You hammered all points, without wandering off into the weeds.

[@bayleybomber]

These hostel ive been living in since December. 🤮 Disgusting heinous living. I envy the homeless

[@Ambience88]

The last time I felt like I was living had to be during the Covid lockdown but I think it’s because I’m an introvert the time before that was probably 2018 when I was in college working at the restaurant with 3 of my good friends from hs worked along side me all of us making good money at the time getting high, drunk, partying just living

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

I have never been alive, not one day. The struggle for a pathetic life

[@johnnelligan4091]

CRACKERJACK !

[@JaykensolutionsNet]

Thank you.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

You're welcome!

[@DougFaulkner-fz4fm]

KZbin video: Is extreme corporate greed to blame for mass layoffs and inflation? Lifeafterlayoff

[@user-zo1pk7bi2o]

The DutchBros “long line” is an issue in Texas as well. Literally pisses me off when those long lines interfere with traffic.

[@Denariusjay]

Governor. Fleece. Battlestar Galactica

[@rustyshackleford4801]

10:05 good thing is Asian massage parlors have been keeping their prices low, supporting the working class!

[@GenerationX1984]

Gen Z has the least heavy lead poisoning.

[@jeffdorris5321]

The problem is that the Baby Boomer generation that has 100k plus jobs are not retired. so the new college grads have no open jobs to apply to but McDonald's, and walmart.

[@smlorrin]

The problem is that you probably wouldn't be paid the 100k if you got that job. That's why many Baby Boomer employees are being let go. The employer then brings in someone who isn't paid nearly as much.

[@Lindemanchannel]

I don't agree with your marxist rhetoric, but I do get pissed when I buy the most basic shit at the grocery store and spend at least $30. The reason we can't afford anything is because of the fiat currency, central banking system. The dollar isnt backed by anything of real value.

[@grim9488]

When is the last time you felt alive bro that one hit deep seriously

[@jimmyscarff9905]

Is it really that bad in USA? It sounded like it was exaggerated for melancholy effect.

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

I watched 2. Videos at lunch of people living well on the money they make here in other no name countries

[@richardouvrier3078]

There is so much unvarnished truth in what you say, MillennialSteam.

[@armeniansdoitbetter]

Coffee at McDonald's or tim Hortons is 3, and over 3 dollars for a large. It used to be 1, and 1.99 only 4 years ago. Coffee out of the house is a luxury, we are not talking about Starbucks or bigby or whatever is the new millennial trendy spot, just regular coffee; it doesn't even taste good anymore either, how sometimes it is old and watered down or that it is not prepared when you ask double double. We will all be living as the resg of the developing world soon, but with nowhere else to flee to for prosperity.

[@user-zo1pk7bi2o]

They’re called Gen Z-ero for a reason.

[@grim9488]

I don't know if I ever felt alive tbh ive always been incognito like there but not if that makes sense

[@DougFaulkner-fz4fm]

Put some raw meat in your taco and you too, can have a PINK TACO!

[@michaelbook2019]

Maybe being homeless isn't so bad. At least the weather is nice here once in a while

[@DavidB.Fischer]

Rent goes under by 4 times the amount. The market is saturated agreed. The job market isn’t good. The problem is there are too many people. A luxury to pay a living wage agreed.

[@itsme-nt2lj]

... so Japan

[@dalton6108]

Explain

[@dubr3662]

I have a house in the country. ⅓ cost of Wichita, Ks. Fuck all this bullsit. Stay strong 💪 brother.

[@geigertec5921]

Why does the video imagine of the Gen Z person look like a Wood Elf?

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

ask chatGPT

[@Middlefinger-r7b]

Gen z smart now that's funny 😂

[@MillennialSteam-h3s]

😂

[@phoneticau]

your glass is half empty not half full

[@bayleybomber]

These hostel ive been living in since December. 🤮 Disgusting heinous living. I envy the homeless