How does a culture survive when a whole generation refuses to work?

[MJ DeMarco]

The question begs...

How can any culture survive as the younger generations, more and more, refuse to work? Refuse to labor? When they view "goals" as sitting around all day watching Tiktok videos and fingerpainting?

Pardon the VOX link, but if this is the majority thought-line in the younger generations, America will be officially dead faster than I thought.

Gen Z does not dream of labor

On TikTok and online, the youngest workers are rejecting work as we know it. How will that play out IRL?

www.vox.com

Question is, is this mindset really a fringe minority, or a majority opinion? If so, once again, giving a broader voice to a radical fringe gives the illusion that an entire generation might think like this, giving it acceptability. The younger millennials and gen-z'ers in my life have NOT embraced anti-labor, or anti-work, and actually are pretty goal oriented.

 

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[McAdam]

I think the root of this is the "Instant Reward" mentality that's been taught more and more from a young age.
People seem to now live with an expectance - rather than realize they only get what they put in.

I don't think it's as widely spread as people make it out to be. But it is growing rapidly.
That article (did not open due to opinions of Vox) just ticks the confirmation bias of those who do believe, and for others its inviting them to take the easy way.

Maybe in the future there will be a new pre-level ahead of the side-walk... people who think they don't need to do anything at all.

 

[MTF]

They can only refuse to work for so long. Eventually they'll run out of cash. So IMO it's a self-correcting problem.