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I did something that I've not done in a very long time. I commented on a yahoo article.
'Working my tail-end off just to get by’: This Walmart worker blasted older Americans for calling young folks lazy — blames them for 'creating' the inflation crisis, ruining the economy
the TlDR can be summed up in this quote.
Here is the thing it was the older generations that sold the lie of the American dream from the word go, They came up with and sold the idea of the subrbubian home with the car (sometimes multiple cars) they told us "You can be whatever you wanted to be" they gave us the participation trophies and yelled at the teachers saying we could do no wrong...and they created the likes of the internet. The Iphone.
Gen Z DOES have a work ethic issue. According to the Entrepreneur over 57% of Gen Zers want to be influencers the other 43% the ones like the woman in this article seem to be sick of being sold a dream of independence that just does not and never has existed. The previous generations claim they wanted better for thier kids and they probably did? But should it not be raising eyebrows that we are seeing Xers Millennials and Zers moving away from the big cities and trying to relearn those ancient skills and reestablish that old lifestyle of hunting and working on the farm to survive...except we are doing so not just to survive but find fulfillment? We laugh at videos like the Goth Farm girl yet she's just the surface, the face of something deeper. Arlas is shrugging, for context I shall quote the book this expression comes from.
Previous Generations wanted their kids to have better than they did, and they've been selling that dream ever since. But what people really want is reality, because at least if you know how to circumvent the storm of reality, you can find peace contentment and even meaning within the storm.
I will leave you with this well-known bit from George Carlin, (Warning: coarse language)
'Working my tail-end off just to get by’: This Walmart worker blasted older Americans for calling young folks lazy — blames them for 'creating' the inflation crisis, ruining the economy
the TlDR can be summed up in this quote.
Older generations namely boomers have been reacting as much as one expects and I think this comment sums up what older generations think about Gen X-Gen Z"Twenty years ago, when you were getting started [with your career], you could live on your own. Twenty years ago when you first started, you were able to do everything that I am now struggling to do," she said.
The video has struck a chord, amassing 6.2 million views, 1.4 million likes and more than 36,000 comments at the time of this writing.
Chailyn's frustration is palpable as she voices the sentiments of Gen Z when confronting the criticisms often directed at her generation.
"You can sit here and call Gen Z lazy all you want, but I have been working my tail-end off just to barely make it by, and respectfully, I don't want to do that for the rest of my life," she said. "I don't want to work my tail-end off, wasting all of my life working, just to barely be able to pay my bills."
This child has no perspective whatsoever. She doesn't know a thing except to blame others for not providing her the privileged life to which she feels entitled.. Look, the world owes you NOTHING just because you are here. NOBODY cares what you don't want to do. No one said to you that if you work 40 hours you were entitled to have this or have that. EVERY form of life struggles to survive and humans are no exception. 40 hours per week is nothing. I worked 40 hours per week plus went to college full time. A typical day for me was 6:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. every day for 7 years to get through college and professional school. And I had it comparatively easy. My grandmother worked as a domestic for .35 cents per day and walked 7 miles to work each way. Generations of Americans ate from public soup kitchens and would have taken any job AT ALL but there were none. Millions of American children stopped school in the second or third grade in order to work on farms to survive. You have no idea what hardship is and no one gives a rat's behind that you don't "want" to work for the rest of your life. Millions and millions of us have done just that with nothing to look forward to except more work, and then you die. Welcome to the struggle, little girl. Either play the game or check yourself out.
Here is the thing it was the older generations that sold the lie of the American dream from the word go, They came up with and sold the idea of the subrbubian home with the car (sometimes multiple cars) they told us "You can be whatever you wanted to be" they gave us the participation trophies and yelled at the teachers saying we could do no wrong...and they created the likes of the internet. The Iphone.
Gen Z DOES have a work ethic issue. According to the Entrepreneur over 57% of Gen Zers want to be influencers the other 43% the ones like the woman in this article seem to be sick of being sold a dream of independence that just does not and never has existed. The previous generations claim they wanted better for thier kids and they probably did? But should it not be raising eyebrows that we are seeing Xers Millennials and Zers moving away from the big cities and trying to relearn those ancient skills and reestablish that old lifestyle of hunting and working on the farm to survive...except we are doing so not just to survive but find fulfillment? We laugh at videos like the Goth Farm girl yet she's just the surface, the face of something deeper. Arlas is shrugging, for context I shall quote the book this expression comes from.
The working portion of Millennials and Gen-Zers, that 43% are realizing how behind they are in terms of skillset, how far behind they were in terms of the things that matters most (To the majority of humans) and they realized it was because of chasing after a false dream. Sure that 43% aren't moving to some dessert island like the characters in Atlas Shrug did but they are increasingly breaking away from society at large, and in truth (and this is my conspiracy theory self talking) I think The boomers are scared not for us but for their SS. SS is a pyramid scheme that needs new taxpayers, city taxpayers to pay into the system and if no one pays into the system, then it means the end of that retirement pool. They've not saved their money and so they have nothing else to fall back on."If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"
I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"
To shrug."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Previous Generations wanted their kids to have better than they did, and they've been selling that dream ever since. But what people really want is reality, because at least if you know how to circumvent the storm of reality, you can find peace contentment and even meaning within the storm.
I will leave you with this well-known bit from George Carlin, (Warning: coarse language)