Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’

return2ozma@lemmy.world · 22 hours ago

Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’

Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee · 7 hours ago

Of course. American prosperity fell off a cliff around 1980, so the last 40 years or so have just been inertia and grinding the middle class into dust.

Which is roughly where we are now.

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 6 hours ago

Not true! The 90s were great! We signed NAFTA and shipped all our manufacturing jobs overseas!

Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee · 4 hours ago

*Cue Josh Lyman parading through West Wing gloating about globalization

Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’

Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’

Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’'