Daemon64
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- Jul 19, 2019
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- Tyngsborough, Massachusetts
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- 2022 Polestar 2 BEV - Current, 2021 Q5 55e PHEV - Retired, 2015 Q5 3.0 TDI - Retired, 2013 Golf TDI - Retired
I completely disagree with it just being a matter of laziness. I am 40 the oldest of millenials. I have a nephew who is 26 so the oldest of Gen Z. He works for enterprise and kills himself detailing cars, and worked for a place before that killing himself detailing cars even more, and the pay he takes in is barely above someone working for mcdonalds. What has actually happened is that wages have stagnated to an extreme amount, and they went up but the cost of living went up extremely. If he worked fulltime, he could not afford a studio apartment and all the normal stuff like basic internet, electricity, food, car insurance, etc... he drives a 2008 jetta w/ 180k miles on it, does his own maintenance and etc... His GF same situation has certifications in medical front end, can't get jobs....(At the risk of getting wayy off topic...)
That’s because they are.
I’m only 23 and I can see it, I’m embarrassed by my own generation. But I was also raised quite differently than most losers my age, my co-workers tell me that I’m the only young person in the company that has a work ethic.
Although if I’m being honest I still consider myself lazy compared to the older folks around here.
Kids these days have everything handed to them on a platter and you really think they’re gonna learn to work hard for what they want (like their parents/grandparents had to) when/if they grow up? Yeah, not likely.
Ok I’m done
What has happened here is the promise of each generation doing better than the last is not true anymore. Millenials are worse off than our boomer parents, and Gen Z is even worse off than we are... So if your option is to work full time, spend basically no money and you still cannot afford to even live in a crappy area in a studio... why would you ever put in the extra effort. I applaud Gen Z demanding better pay, which trickles through the entire economy. But in the end it comes down to this: Workers have the most leverage right now that they've had since before the boomer generation came into the work force. Why? Simple math: 4+ million baby boomers retired during the pandemic( the largest generation in american history ) and many more every day and while that may not seem like much, what is the reality is there is literally not enough Gen X, Millenials, or Gen Z to fill all the job openings: couple that with historically low unemployment rate and here we are.
If he moved into a more rural area and made the same amount of money, he could actually afford some stuff, but now he's 80+ miles or even more away from all of his friends and family. Lets say he did that, would you want him coming to your small town taking a job for someone else thats local, and then causing by default your cost of living to go up. It happened during the pandemic when people who had good jobs moved to more rural areas to get a better quality of life, except we drove up the cost of living extremely for people living there as well, thus forcing out or making things more difficult for people in those rural areas.
Everyone wants to complain about something and say "why don't you do what i did", but then throws in a whole, but don't come to my back yard. My wife and I work 2 jobs each ( technically I have three ). If we sold our house we could move to the rural areas spoken about and buy like 4 - 5 houses, and start renting them out, and then guess what there goes that cost of living since we "did the smart thing" and invested in real estate. Sure our lives would be much easier we could eliminate much of our jobs, and we'd be bringing money into the local economy since all of our jobs are remote.... but by the same token we'd be raising the cost of living for everyone else there. I do not subscribe to the "screw you i got mine" mentality.
Now: I certainly do NOT agree with many points that have been made in this thread on these topics, and have kindly asked that we keep it out. I could easily go books and books back and forth on this and many other subjects. But we're here to discuss ,CARS, EVs, diesel vs gas vs electric, solar charging related, total emissions, things of this nature: NOT supposed work ethics, politics, and things of that nature.