The new hippies? But no surprise to me, because some of today's work demands are over the top, plus they are told every day on the news how impossible financial success is for them now.
Right ...but eventually the hippies all went to work and settled down somewhere. Only it sounds like this group will have no skills or education which will make them vulnerable and easily exploited. If the think they are suffering now they have no idea what the real cruel world is like.😢
Boomers call us lazy but fail to see that GenZ/Millennials are working higher paying jobs than our parents did at our age (making 45k-70k just starting out), working side hustles or second jobs, and still can barely afford to live due inflated housing, gas, and food costs. My grocery costs from 2016 are nearly triple now with the same shopping list. I had to move in with a dad to save for a house cause rent, even for a studio apartment, is so damn high I might as well own, but even having a mortgage sounds scary cause that can increase with interest rates and taxes. At least if you’re lower class, you can get government assistance to get by; if you’re upper class, you can thrive more worry free. But if you’re middle class, you’re living as paycheck to paycheck as the lower class but you make too much for government assistance. The system in place isn’t working for anyone below retirement age and politicians are doing nothing but lining their pockets while we drown. We are in a constant state of survival, and are so exhausted to the point of asking ourselves if there’s even a point to trying anymore.
You are spot on. That's why middle class is moving out of high cost of living states. They refuse to be the middle man while only the poor and rich benefit.
You can only get government assistance if you barely make anything. you have to make less than 15,000 a year as one person and that makes sense for someone who is retired but also what about people with severe mental or physical disabilities
@@Cocoa_Kalypso DO NOT GET AN ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE. Get a fixed rate mortgage, even if it's higher now. Or save and pay cash for a used mobile home or fixer upper. Rent a spare bedroom out to help with costs.
Why work? You will never be able to afford a house or retire. Gen Z isn't dumb. We see all the people that worked their whole life and now cannot retire because of inflation; and it's only going to get worse. We aren't going to step in that trap.
Rapid inflation has only been occurring for the last 2-3 years. If someone was responsible with their money for say the last 20-30 years then yes they would be able to retire. Problem is people don’t save/invest and then blame the world for their shortcomings.
I'm 50 and have worked for about 35 years... I hate it with a passion and cannot wait to retire.. there is no work / lyfe balance.. its all corpo "coolaid" BS... I work because I HAVE to - def NOT because I want to.. where is the me time?? when Im so old I cant enjoy it.. the system is bullSh1t...
@@colton_936 Guess what? No generation loved "the system" in their twenties!!! GROW UP AND DEAL WITH YOUR PROBLEMS. That's what an adult does, even if they did not cause the situation or things are unfair.
Go look at the history books of life in the United States in the 60s and the 70s, etc! There were protests and hippies and eventually those hippies got jobs and settled down. We all wanted to change things and not sell our souls to capitalism. Why not be smart about it and infiltrate learn all you can from those systems make some money put it aside then leave start your own business and try to undo whatever you feel is not just in the world? You have to make money in order to live in our society and it's getting more expensive every day. The less training and employment experience you have the more likely you will be living on the street in the future.
I don’t think that it’s only a Gen-Z issue. I’m 56 and worked as a CNC machinist my whole life. In 2007 I was making $24 an hour before I quit my job. Recently I took a job for $26 an hour doing the same exact job. I lasted 2 months before I gave up again. The stress, in addition to making $2 an hour more than I did 17 years ago, was too much to handle. I’m just going to burn through all my retirement savings now while I watch TH-cam videos and eat popcorn. These companies are a joke. Must run 3 machines simultaneously. Must be quality oriented. Fast paced environment. Must work overtime. Yeah sure. Do it yourself. 😂
Maybe you should move to a smaller town in a lower cost of living country. Find a place where you don't have to have a car that constantly bleeds you dry. I live in a walkable area in Mexico and get around on a little electric moped.
How do you opt out of the workforce, unless you are given money like an inheritance, live in somebody else's home for free, eat their food for free, or else our homeless and rely on food donations?
Uh, yeah. That's exactly what happens. Homeless population exploding, & % of Gen Z still living with their parents is something like 50%. And it's not always by choice either, much the opposite. Workforce is broken, many of us can't get even the most basic entry level job at mcd's. And when we do, 99% our salary goes to other people. That's called slavery. Really the only solace for us are those parents who understand how bad the economy is and allow us to stay at home.
Nobody gives these people handouts smart people ... they work side jobs and keep their expenses low. They not at McDonald's every day anymore making one family rich. Forget a job we can't compete business wise with McDonald's or Walmart or you name it. Game over ... n we underpaid about 10 dollars with fair inflation of last 40 years. The dollar doesn't go as far ....
I'm a millennial. In my early 20s i was only making 9 bucks an hour and could afford to live on my own, all bills fully paid, no food stamps, and i still had plenty of money leftover at the end of the month to either save or go out with friends. Now I'm in my mid 30s, making the most money I've ever made in my life and can barely survive. I don't blame them at all for not wanting to work anymore when you're giving so much of your time and energy to these companies and you're only making enough to barely scrape by. It's like you only make enough to stay alive and keep going to work with nothing left to enjoy life. It's modern day slavery.
What a shocker. Most young people don’t feel like they’ll ever get married, have a house or kids, retire ect… we live in a society that glorifies getting one over on someone else, whether that be in the workplace, in investments or in relationships. The logical choice is to do as little as possible for many people. Luckily for me, I’ve got a good future wife and a house, but I’m by far the minority of people in their 20s with this arrangement
im gen z and i'm so serious when i say i will take myself off this planet before i sell my soul to capitalism. my peers are working 2-3 jobs to keep themselves afloat. hours and hours of working to get nowhere and to have no financial freedom because they have to save every penny to be able to do anything with said money. people say invest it, but that is for RICH people. that is for people who have extra money and have the time to wait for it to grow. we dont have this luxury. we dont have any luxuries at all. we are constantly getting priced out by the corporate conglomerates despite working our asses off. i'm so sick and tired of it. something needs to change because i know i'm not the only one who feels this way.
Imagine being in your 50s and having done "all of the right things" we were told to do to be in the same position as you. Many of us have lost careers that have been taken over by shareholders or some of us were teachers who had to leave the dangers of the classrooms today. How do we start over at our age?! You at least have youth which is ALL that our dystopian society cares about. They don't care if I am an expert in my field of education... everyone is an expert in their minds nowadays. Your generation is not the only one suffering. We ALL are. DON'T take yourself out and give them the satisfaction. FIGHT and figure out a way to live despite the evil of the capitalistic society. That will make them soooo mad and we will be happy to have you with us as we are all fighting
@@v1v1d1ty Yeah, and of course the conclusion is "SOMEONE needs to fix this". 🤦 Not YOU, because hard work is for suckers! You want financial independence but you get tired just watching others work and save and "investing is for rich people"! What's your plan? To hope that taxes are increased on your hard worker friends so the government can send you a fat check every month when the " bank of Mom and Dad" closes?😂😂
Genuine good fair question here: how do you survive if you don’t take place in the workforce, but aren’t rich? Unless you’re living entirely off the grid, you can’t really just opt out of needing money for a roof over your head, gas for your car, food, etc. I genuinely don’t understand how this movement is supposed to work.
Just quit my job. They worked me like a dog and I had a mental breakdown about it. All my boss has to say is that I have responsibility as far as the job. I just told him that I'm no longer want to take the responsibility any more and that I want more work life balance. Taking the company truck and phone back today
I'm not going to work to build someone else's society, governed by someone else's constitution, with social values inflected by someone else's religion, to make a buck for someone else's business.
@@zdlax Guess what? No generation loved "the system" in their twenties!!! You know what else? You are "one of THEM" to people not in your ideological group! GROW UP AND DEAL WITH YOUR PROBLEMS. That's what an adult does, even if they did not cause the situation or things are unfair.
You’ll work for nothing and like it… yeah people aren’t buying it anymore. When I first lived on my own in 2009 my rent was 835 for a 2 bed 2 bath my expenses were 30-40% Cheaper than they are now. I pay 4x now and I feel like I’m running on a wheel going nowhere. Working yourself like crazy to make ends meet doesn’t feel rewarding if you can barely get by.
I think it’s surprising! Why isn’t the title gen Z = homeless?? How are they able to eat & live?? Ooooohh they’re adults mooching off of their hard working parents whom are delaying their well deserved retirement in order for the gen Zs to not work.
Never be someone else's employee unless it's a spectacular job you love that pays in abundance. If you don't find a job like that, there are MANY options to be your own boss. Working per hour means someone else is profiting from your labor so you aren't receiving what you are worth. Corporations have ruined the US. Hospitals pay doctors less than what I earn in Onlyfans so I left medschool. My parents are both doctors. Completing med school would have been a breeze for me. Hospitals would have the means to pay doctors if we had universal healthcare. But the current system is broken. Even doctors are not being paid what they should. Hospital owners pay a pitance to ALL their staff. Everyone who is smart and can figure out how to make better pay elsewhere... is deciding to not become a doctor. We are going to feel the consequences of dumber doctors. The only people completing medical school are those who could not find a better job. Bottom of the barrel. Hard time are ahead. Not only financially.
I could either retire by the time it took me to finish medical school. Or complete medical school and be in enormous debt. This is why medical school should be free or WAY less expensive. Additionally, hospitals should never be allowed to be for-profit. Even CNAs are paid less to work at hospitals than if they worked at Taco Bell. Same wage, but Taco Bell will offer other incentives (medical insurance, etc). We have allowed corporations to ruin even the places we rely on to save us when our lives are in danger.
@@zenwilds2911 Yeah, right! Doctors make way less under socialized medicine! You claim that your parents were both doctors and med school would be a breeze for you, but you're too ignorant to know what AGING is? You think o.f. is a viable lifetime career? When there are so many other lazy 304s out there to compete with?
Sort of. I see it occasionally in millennials but gen Z OMG! I am 61 and work the hardest AT 61! Lazy fks. I decided to retire next year…all is in order
@@ed0078if you’re privileged with the ability to retire, you should not be saying anything. these younger generations won’t even be able to retire at 80.
Good question. At 18 I had no choice but to move out of my parents home and I had to pick between Military service or factory work. I chose factory work which I still regret to this day.
Parents are coddling these kids way too long. Lack of real physical social networking and never started working in their teens. They need to be taught finance at a young age.
I’m 36, and I decided to stop cooking after 20+ years, over full time with basically no pay, to working 2 days a week as a dishwasher, and DoorDashing with my wife every day. Best decision of my life.
EXACTLY…their parents. Parents who’ve worked hard and have to delay retirement or can’t enjoy it fully. As an Xennial I refuse to have my kids be like this 😂
This right here. A friends brother just got "diagnosed" at 30 with autism and gets disability. But he will be going on tour with a band as a guitarist all over the country. So seems to me he could work an actual job? Such a scam for us taxpayers.
@@mofly1860 Once he starts touring it should be reported, and he should be found ineligible. Even attending band practice regularly on schedule, playing a on schedule, playing an instrument, and collaborating with others shows that he is capable of doing a job. Hopefully he has social media and so does the band. This makes the investigators job easier.
When a Machine Learning Engineer with a degree in Computer Science is offered a 1-20/hr as an intern, they would rather flip burgers or do something else. I make more than that playing poker. Like why even try.
@@neonnoir9692 well what do you expect? Gen Z are just starting life, we don't have 30+ yrs of experience as most of the people on this comment section has.
Where will they live...? Are there some free apartments somewhere that I don't know about because the last time I checked even people making good incomes were having a hard time paying their rent
@@HopelessAutistic It’s called having an opinion. Look it up…it’s a thing. If you don’t like opinions, perhaps you should avoid the comment section…just my opinion 👍🏽
Not all Gen Z are like this. After my son graduated from college, he became a Med sales rep. Didn’t like sales n went back to school n became an RN. His GF is a successful in HR. Very hard working Gen Zs.
But over time your child will become resentful when he is making money from work and the others not. Keep him on the right track. By the way good job as a parent not seen very much anymore
Problem is this: if everyone just starts dropping out of the work force, society will start collapsing if people are unwilling to do the work. Who will maintain infrastructure, deliver your package, stock your grocery store, etc? No matter how much we hate it, our entire world revolves around work.
@@tylerharris4392 I think you will when society breaks the fuck down and those services you need won’t be there. I mean, you do realize, you’re typing this comment on a smart phone, right, inside of an air conditioned house or apartment? Who do you think is responsible or maintains that?
Call it the new strike, hopefully companies and the governments will wake and realize we work to provide ourselves with a quality life, so they better give that to us. We aren’t going to stand for being paid minimum wage on a 10 hr labor intensive shift and not afford any housing or healthcare. They crazy if they think we’re that stupid.
@@Anonymous-wb3nz right because I literally give a f*ck about something I took 1sec to type out in a yt comment section. But thanks for taking time to correct me. Spending time on something that actually matters is hard
Point #1 presenter said “adopting this mindset” so not even they believe it’s an actual ‘condition’ as they try make it out to be. Point #2 it’s called laziness. All other generations suffered depression and bouts of hopelessness yet they still hustled. Too much coddling in the home!
I agree I’m a millennial (30) and I’ve had anxiety for most of my adult life but I still had to go to work. I didn’t want to be there but I made the best of it by getting a job that I somewhat liked being at and on my days off I would destress and hangout with friends. Of course they’re never going to get a house if they can’t even work. The laziest generation
Check back in with them in 5-10 yrs. They will have tasted a bit of real life when you have no money or education or skills. Life out there is harsh and cruel and even more so when you are vulnerable to begin with. No one is saying you have to work for a corporation. Start your own biz. But you need training and education and money. Some of us worked in the evil corporate world with a plan to get out and start our thing. Sometimes you have to do stuff you don't like for a while...geeesh
it’s not a “trend.” it’s us not wanting to fix the mess of the economy that YOU have made. you made the economy like this, and expect us to work our butts off to fix it. i barley make enough money to pay my bills and i work 5 days a week 40 hours. so excuseeee us for not wanting to fix something we didn’t do.
You could learn a trade. My local vocational school has HVAC tech programs for $6500 get out and start at about $40k a year give it a few years and run your own business. My cousin did this last year he made well over $400k
I was ready to be a cog and work overtime and then I got rejected. My degree wasn't enough for the field. So I said screw it. And now I live with less and enjoy more time.
The message of this video is boomer language for "They just don't want to work for and serve us." Yeah we don't. We have skills and education we just don't want to be a slave to your society. Give us opportunities to work for ourselves, that's what we want.
@@dixonvmusic2737 Yes, calling Grandpa names so he'll give you opportunities! That'll work!🤦 GROW UP and handle your situation like an ADULT. Regardless of whether it is "fair" or who caused it.
In the UK if you tell the doctor you have anxiety or depression you can get signed off sick and put on state benefits. If you rent a property then state benefits provide you far more money than a minimum wage job. I know several people who play the system like this. They play video games most of the day and are happy. Meanwhile the rest of us that are working are having to pay high taxes to fund this stupidity.
Never in my life did I think I would see NEET used in America. I did a research paper on this in college when it was only a Japanese phenomenon. Holy shit.
@@istvanfoy-roberts868 because it reduces their sense of morale aspiration to do adult things, such as a house or sports car or financially stable child rearing environment. So they just choose to remain kids instead. Crazy that I need to explain this to you?
@@Sloimer So lower wages mean try less, or give up? If anything, they should be hustling more. Get a backbone. I’m 33 and worked 2 jobs while schooling to be where I’m at today. We’ve all had to hustle out here, unless it’s people who have mommy and daddy’s umbrella to protect them thus enabling them to dodge responsibility for longer and apparently decide to start relishing in not working like it’s some sort of temper tantrum protest that’s going to make them get what they want sooner. Just ridiculous.
what do you expect - employers are not paying enough to make ends meet, they saw their parents get laid off during the outsourcing pitch there is no corporate loyalty, and the generation has consistently been told there will be no work for them AI and robots are taking over. its not rocket science to figure this out.
I don’t get paid much at 61 and its been this way most of my life. Not on any subsistence and am very content with what God has given me as my lot. Most of Gen Z hate God and so he gives them misery. I am very happy
The currency is dying. Being productive only supports thieving overlords. But you can't say that, can you? You can't describe the reason for the problem. Weak.
Government-supplied basic income via CBDC, paying for ongoing subscription-based perpetual debt. No ownership of anything, no skills to become self sustainable and disempowering hopelessness instilled via media propaganda. All income, services and communications can be cancelled at any time if you get out of line. Slave society accomplished.
Sometimes you have to do things that you don’t necessarily like doing. It’s like going to the doctor or having to get a cavity filled. If you don’t do it, your teeth are gonna fall out.
I work for about 6months then quit and go broke. Work for 6 months then quit because I can’t tolerate it, and go broke again. I have accepted I’m not going to personally enrich myself but this system allows me a lot more time to be truly free with my consciousness. :) it’s hard but doable
it's not just "opting out" of the workforce, it's literally lack of accessible jobs and struggles with getting hired while competing with way too many applicants per job listing. then it's the lack of being paid a living wage once you do get hired. the employment market is such a mess and is not working for the people. so why should the people work for it???
@@masonhancock5350sure , I feel your pain. Prices doubled in the last 3 years my wage stayed the same. It's all part of the plan. Make us needy. And then make us reliant on government
@@trustoldpaths1415 IDK what this is, because under Socialism, everybody has to bust their butt at the factory or on the collective farm! Unless you're party chairman or whatever ..
I'm a millenial and I experience this exact thing. I left the workforce to go back to school. I made that difficult decision for my mental health. But in all honesty, I try not to think of the future and just live in the present.
Work, save, and invest. It's that easy. Refuse to work, don't prepare for the future, and there will be plenty of room for you in a box in the ally way eating garbage. No one is going to help you.
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 Even with roommates, rent is unaffordable. I'm not sure what makes you think gen z doesn't have roommates. Ya'll just makes stuff up. I don't know a single gen z without roommates
@@porkyrabbit Because money can ONLY be spent on rent, not saved to buy a car, house or invested for retirement! Also, roommates don't exist!--Zoomer logic.
That works. They’ll be the only ones who own nothing and are happy. They will rent from me and pay my mortgage, my grocery bills and my car payment because they won’t be able to afford anything else.
@KhanumBallZ and yet, you’ll do it anyway if you’re part of the me me me group that says I want what I want when I want it. These are eternal spiritual laws that govern the universe. There is no escaping them. You can ignore them at your own peril. We all reap what we sow. No one is exempt, myself included. Why not learn the laws and live truly happy, rather than selfish? Those are the only two choices.
Billionaires, Millionaires and Boomer retirees about to find out what happens when you selfishly abandon an entire generation and refuse to protect them from gun violence. Billionaires need worker more than workers need billionaires 🤷♂️.
@@peachmango5347 What young person do you know is able to get a house alone? How many people are screaming that they don’t even have enough to put food in the table? What you stated is the bare minimum and not even that is provided in exchange lol.
@@NO-kc4xb Tell me what the last time was where a young person could get a house alone? Hmmm...I think that was about 60 years ago...get real ...that has not been a thing forever...has nothing to do with Gen Z...its a been a dual income household for decades on end. Gen Z has highly unrealistic expectations on how an adult actually creates a successful lifestyle...they treat life like a list of checkboxes...get college degree in anything - check - hey where's my house?? Ridiculous.
When I graduated from high school in 1960 no entry level job paid enough to live on your own. After college the same was true for all but professional positions. Ask folks our age how we managed. Are you willing to do what we had to do??
They don't work but some how can afford their living standards. These ppl are not homeless but are peppered in amongst the working class. Milking public funds because of their invisible illnesses. Doctors raking it in on a generation that was taught no life skills, over diagnosing and prescribing straight to the bank. An amazing cure for this would be like it was prior to the loose public assistance and student aide, you work or you don't have life's necessities. And YES the COL needs to be addressed. Not much incentive to contribute to society as a whole if you can't even break bread.
The new hippies? But no surprise to me, because some of today's work demands are over the top, plus they are told every day on the news how impossible financial success is for them now.
Right ...but eventually the hippies all went to work and settled down somewhere. Only it sounds like this group will have no skills or education which will make them vulnerable and easily exploited. If the think they are suffering now they have no idea what the real cruel world is like.😢
Boomers call us lazy but fail to see that GenZ/Millennials are working higher paying jobs than our parents did at our age (making 45k-70k just starting out), working side hustles or second jobs, and still can barely afford to live due inflated housing, gas, and food costs. My grocery costs from 2016 are nearly triple now with the same shopping list.
I had to move in with a dad to save for a house cause rent, even for a studio apartment, is so damn high I might as well own, but even having a mortgage sounds scary cause that can increase with interest rates and taxes.
At least if you’re lower class, you can get government assistance to get by; if you’re upper class, you can thrive more worry free. But if you’re middle class, you’re living as paycheck to paycheck as the lower class but you make too much for government assistance.
The system in place isn’t working for anyone below retirement age and politicians are doing nothing but lining their pockets while we drown. We are in a constant state of survival, and are so exhausted to the point of asking ourselves if there’s even a point to trying anymore.
I'm 57 and living the same hellish life you described. It sucks!
You are spot on. That's why middle class is moving out of high cost of living states. They refuse to be the middle man while only the poor and rich benefit.
You can only get government assistance if you barely make anything. you have to make less than 15,000 a year as one person and that makes sense for someone who is retired but also what about people with severe mental or physical disabilities
No…millennials and Gen Z are just cry babies
@@Cocoa_Kalypso DO NOT GET AN ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE. Get a fixed rate mortgage, even if it's higher now. Or save and pay cash for a used mobile home or fixer upper. Rent a spare bedroom out to help with costs.
Why work? You will never be able to afford a house or retire. Gen Z isn't dumb. We see all the people that worked their whole life and now cannot retire because of inflation; and it's only going to get worse. We aren't going to step in that trap.
Your generation is the reason inflation is a thing.
But Work and gradually become wealthy over time.
Rapid inflation has only been occurring for the last 2-3 years. If someone was responsible with their money for say the last 20-30 years then yes they would be able to retire. Problem is people don’t save/invest and then blame the world for their shortcomings.
I think you guys are doing good work. "The system" can't work. It doesn't even work for many people who work hard.
lol
I'm 50 and have worked for about 35 years... I hate it with a passion and cannot wait to retire.. there is no work / lyfe balance.. its all corpo "coolaid" BS... I work because I HAVE to - def NOT because I want to.. where is the me time?? when Im so old I cant enjoy it.. the system is bullSh1t...
vote red and you will be working until you're 100 😄
@@sinistan1002 Voting is the process of choosing a master to rob you and rule you. Every option on that menu harms you deeply.
Live in a 3rd world country and you will be glad you have a job, food, and roof over your head.
@@jimbochoo3316 Great excuse to stop trying. Other people have worse than you.
Smart.
You took the EXACT words right out of my mouth. I’m 50 too and have worked 35 years.
Gen Z is not broken, the system is.
Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
@@colton_936 Guess what? No generation loved "the system" in their twenties!!!
GROW UP AND DEAL WITH YOUR PROBLEMS. That's what an adult does, even if they did not cause the situation or things are unfair.
Go look at the history books of life in the United States in the 60s and the 70s, etc! There were protests and hippies and eventually those hippies got jobs and settled down. We all wanted to change things and not sell our souls to capitalism. Why not be smart about it and infiltrate learn all you can from those systems make some money put it aside then leave start your own business and try to undo whatever you feel is not just in the world? You have to make money in order to live in our society and it's getting more expensive every day. The less training and employment experience you have the more likely you will be living on the street in the future.
Millennials stand strong with Gen Z. We have the same problem.
@@gowine504 Yeah? Severe neck and thumb pain from being head down over your phone?😂
And us Gen X people have zero sympathy for you
Gen Y too.
@@unkonogen y are millennials
I’m not. This is a generation that wants to be cared for and over. That’s not what the world is about
I don’t think that it’s only a Gen-Z issue. I’m 56 and worked as a CNC machinist my whole life. In 2007 I was making $24 an hour before I quit my job. Recently I took a job for $26 an hour doing the same exact job. I lasted 2 months before I gave up again. The stress, in addition to making $2 an hour more than I did 17 years ago, was too much to handle. I’m just going to burn through all my retirement savings now while I watch TH-cam videos and eat popcorn. These companies are a joke. Must run 3 machines simultaneously. Must be quality oriented. Fast paced environment. Must work overtime. Yeah sure. Do it yourself.
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Yes the modern day work world sucks. To much red tape on everything.
Yup. Screw them
@@BillyMartin68 Don't do it. The penalties on taking from a 401k or trad. IRA before 59 1/2 aren't worth it.
Maybe you should move to a smaller town in a lower cost of living country. Find a place where you don't have to have a car that constantly bleeds you dry. I live in a walkable area in Mexico and get around on a little electric moped.
@@tn18977 Yeah, he would still get Social Security ( when he's old enough) but Medicare stops at the U.S. border.
How do you opt out of the workforce, unless you are given money like an inheritance, live in somebody else's home for free, eat their food for free, or else our homeless and rely on food donations?
Uh, yeah. That's exactly what happens. Homeless population exploding, & % of Gen Z still living with their parents is something like 50%. And it's not always by choice either, much the opposite. Workforce is broken, many of us can't get even the most basic entry level job at mcd's. And when we do, 99% our salary goes to other people. That's called slavery. Really the only solace for us are those parents who understand how bad the economy is and allow us to stay at home.
Yes. This is what I’m wondering. How are Gen Z’s getting the money they need to live? Have they created a new economy that we don’t know about?
@@JulietParrottMerrell 😄
@@JulietParrottMerrell Please share I would like to know how they're living.
Nobody gives these people handouts smart people ... they work side jobs and keep their expenses low. They not at McDonald's every day anymore making one family rich. Forget a job we can't compete business wise with McDonald's or Walmart or you name it. Game over ... n we underpaid about 10 dollars with fair inflation of last 40 years. The dollar doesn't go as far ....
Why would they want to work for free and in a toxic workplace.
@@JJ-ml7wo Work hard when you're on the clock but don't work for free. Don't stay late off the clock or work through a lunch that is deducted.
find a new job then
Then maybe stop bringing toxicity with you to the workplace, and stop spending all your money on stuff you don't need.
I'm a millennial. In my early 20s i was only making 9 bucks an hour and could afford to live on my own, all bills fully paid, no food stamps, and i still had plenty of money leftover at the end of the month to either save or go out with friends. Now I'm in my mid 30s, making the most money I've ever made in my life and can barely survive. I don't blame them at all for not wanting to work anymore when you're giving so much of your time and energy to these companies and you're only making enough to barely scrape by. It's like you only make enough to stay alive and keep going to work with nothing left to enjoy life. It's modern day slavery.
So if gen z don't work, are they relying on their parents to support their free lifestyle?
What a shocker. Most young people don’t feel like they’ll ever get married, have a house or kids, retire ect… we live in a society that glorifies getting one over on someone else, whether that be in the workplace, in investments or in relationships. The logical choice is to do as little as possible for many people. Luckily for me, I’ve got a good future wife and a house, but I’m by far the minority of people in their 20s with this arrangement
Keep going
im gen z and i'm so serious when i say i will take myself off this planet before i sell my soul to capitalism. my peers are working 2-3 jobs to keep themselves afloat. hours and hours of working to get nowhere and to have no financial freedom because they have to save every penny to be able to do anything with said money. people say invest it, but that is for RICH people. that is for people who have extra money and have the time to wait for it to grow. we dont have this luxury. we dont have any luxuries at all. we are constantly getting priced out by the corporate conglomerates despite working our asses off. i'm so sick and tired of it. something needs to change because i know i'm not the only one who feels this way.
Well said fellow member of Gen Z😊
Imagine being in your 50s and having done "all of the right things" we were told to do to be in the same position as you. Many of us have lost careers that have been taken over by shareholders or some of us were teachers who had to leave the dangers of the classrooms today. How do we start over at our age?! You at least have youth which is ALL that our dystopian society cares about. They don't care if I am an expert in my field of education... everyone is an expert in their minds nowadays. Your generation is not the only one suffering. We ALL are. DON'T take yourself out and give them the satisfaction. FIGHT and figure out a way to live despite the evil of the capitalistic society. That will make them soooo mad and we will be happy to have you with us as we are all fighting
You can blame dei and socialism for this mess
@@v1v1d1ty Yeah, and of course the conclusion is "SOMEONE needs to fix this". 🤦
Not YOU, because hard work is for suckers! You want financial independence but you get tired just watching others work and save and "investing is for rich people"!
What's your plan? To hope that taxes are increased on your hard worker friends so the government can send you a fat check every month when the " bank of Mom and Dad" closes?😂😂
Genuine good fair question here: how do you survive if you don’t take place in the workforce, but aren’t rich? Unless you’re living entirely off the grid, you can’t really just opt out of needing money for a roof over your head, gas for your car, food, etc. I genuinely don’t understand how this movement is supposed to work.
Just quit my job. They worked me like a dog and I had a mental breakdown about it. All my boss has to say is that I have responsibility as far as the job. I just told him that I'm no longer want to take the responsibility any more and that I want more work life balance. Taking the company truck and phone back today
why would the youth want to work when they make the same on average that we made 20 years ago, but all costs have increased almost tenfold.
I'm not going to work to build someone else's society, governed by someone else's constitution, with social values inflected by someone else's religion, to make a buck for someone else's business.
Find your own gig. I did. It ain't always easy.
Failure is defined by the moment you give up.
@@zdlax Guess what? No generation loved "the system" in their twenties!!!
You know what else? You are "one of THEM" to people not in your ideological group!
GROW UP AND DEAL WITH YOUR PROBLEMS. That's what an adult does, even if they did not cause the situation or things are unfair.
You’ll work for nothing and like it… yeah people aren’t buying it anymore. When I first lived on my own in 2009 my rent was 835 for a 2 bed 2 bath my expenses were 30-40% Cheaper than they are now. I pay 4x now and I feel like I’m running on a wheel going nowhere. Working yourself like crazy to make ends meet doesn’t feel rewarding if you can barely get by.
Is this surprising though? Jobs do not pay, and becoming an influencer or only fans model is heavily promoted...
I think it’s surprising! Why isn’t the title gen Z = homeless?? How are they able to eat & live?? Ooooohh they’re adults mooching off of their hard working parents whom are delaying their well deserved retirement in order for the gen Zs to not work.
I wish jobs paid what they do when I was graduating high school. I made $4 an hour and I was happy to get that.
I told this health clinic that was fixing a billing issue; I said if I was younger I would be on only fans to pay the bills
@@jbar_85 it’s ridiculous that this is how society is running though lol
How to destroy the world and then blame the children you raised for it.
I''m a millennial and I have also opted out. F the corporate world.
So how are you supporting yourself? How do you eat, bathe, buy clothes, pay for transportation, etc?
Never be someone else's employee unless it's a spectacular job you love that pays in abundance.
If you don't find a job like that, there are MANY options to be your own boss.
Working per hour means someone else is profiting from your labor so you aren't receiving what you are worth.
Corporations have ruined the US. Hospitals pay doctors less than what I earn in Onlyfans so I left medschool. My parents are both doctors. Completing med school would have been a breeze for me.
Hospitals would have the means to pay doctors if we had universal healthcare.
But the current system is broken. Even doctors are not being paid what they should.
Hospital owners pay a pitance to ALL their staff.
Everyone who is smart and can figure out how to make better pay elsewhere... is deciding to not become a doctor.
We are going to feel the consequences of dumber doctors. The only people completing medical school are those who could not find a better job. Bottom of the barrel.
Hard time are ahead. Not only financially.
I could either retire by the time it took me to finish medical school.
Or complete medical school and be in enormous debt.
This is why medical school should be free or WAY less expensive.
Additionally, hospitals should never be allowed to be for-profit.
Even CNAs are paid less to work at hospitals than if they worked at Taco Bell.
Same wage, but Taco Bell will offer other incentives (medical insurance, etc).
We have allowed corporations to ruin even the places we rely on to save us when our lives are in danger.
@@zenwilds2911 Yeah, right! Doctors make way less under socialized medicine! You claim that your parents were both doctors and med school would be a breeze for you, but you're too ignorant to know what AGING is? You think o.f. is a viable lifetime career? When there are so many other lazy 304s out there to compete with?
It’s not just gen z but also millennials
I agree it’s also millennials
Sort of. I see it occasionally in millennials but gen Z OMG! I am 61 and work the hardest AT 61! Lazy fks. I decided to retire next year…all is in order
Don't forget generation X. Many of us have said F*CK IT as well!
Nah I’m working. I don’t know how the fuck people think “doing nothing” is an option
@@ed0078if you’re privileged with the ability to retire, you should not be saying anything. these younger generations won’t even be able to retire at 80.
Who could blame Gen Z for checking out. The workplace is an authoritarian hellscape nightmare.
Me and many others blame them…wake up! This will have an effect soon. At least I am 61 and won’t see most of the damage gen Z will have caused
@@harris2284 The older generations worked and were taxed. How will the system work when nobody works and pays in?
Who is paying for these people to live? I didn’t have the option to not get a job and support myself…
I know I don’t even have any parents to ask for help I wish I did and I’m gen Z
100% their parents. Gen zs parents are completely enabling this behavior. Gen Z will go down as the most entitled generation in history.
Good question. At 18 I had no choice but to move out of my parents home and I had to pick between Military service or factory work. I chose factory work which I still regret to this day.
Parents are coddling these kids way too long. Lack of real physical social networking and never started working in their teens. They need to be taught finance at a young age.
If you are willing to share, why do you regret factory work?
They are figuring out the reality of what we all have been going through and they are like nope
I’m 36, and I decided to stop cooking after 20+ years, over full time with basically no pay, to working 2 days a week as a dishwasher, and DoorDashing with my wife every day. Best decision of my life.
We'll who's paying for their basic needs then? Especially during this inflation Era?
They will find doctors to help them get on disability. You and I will be paying for them for a lifetime.
Parents or us the taxpayers
EXACTLY…their parents. Parents who’ve worked hard and have to delay retirement or can’t enjoy it fully. As an Xennial I refuse to have my kids be like this 😂
This right here. A friends brother just got "diagnosed" at 30 with autism and gets disability. But he will be going on tour with a band as a guitarist all over the country. So seems to me he could work an actual job? Such a scam for us taxpayers.
@@mofly1860 Once he starts touring it should be reported, and he should be found ineligible. Even attending band practice regularly on schedule, playing a on schedule, playing an instrument, and collaborating with others shows that he is capable of doing a job. Hopefully he has social media and so does the band. This makes the investigators job easier.
I hate this world
Me2
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Calm down
use your time on this earth to create the World you wish to live in
Based
Don’t compare your self to others and keep life simple
When a Machine Learning Engineer with a degree in Computer Science is offered a 1-20/hr as an intern, they would rather flip burgers or do something else. I make more than that playing poker. Like why even try.
I wouldn’t want to play a game that’s rigged against me either. As a millennial, I get it
I am a Gen X'er. Most of the Gen Z that I work alongside with self report that they have anxiety. It is really sad. They are good kids albeit lost.
They literally don't know how to do anything, it's mind blowing.
That anxiety mantra is such a cliche and BS.
@@neonnoir9692 and cannot take any sort of criticism at all or direction and expect to be praised non stop.. welcome to the real world.
i'd argue gen z have more of a clue than millenials who are whiney crybabies for the most part
@@neonnoir9692 well what do you expect? Gen Z are just starting life, we don't have 30+ yrs of experience as most of the people on this comment section has.
yeah the parents do everything.
Why work and still be poor, when you can just be poor and not work? Gen Zer's are not dumb.
Where will they live...? Are there some free apartments somewhere that I don't know about because the last time I checked even people making good incomes were having a hard time paying their rent
They're doing this because SOMEONE is enabling them.
Well it’s either that or we live in our cars and steal and shit on the street for your kids to step on
Getting money from their single moms who are getting money from disenfranchised fathers.. Or society is a ponzi scheme.
Being locked down and in fear of a virus during a pivotal time in their development could have contributed to this state of mind.
This is such a ignorant take...
@@HopelessAutistic Bless your heart
Nah...they were lazy before that too.
@@dbhart8528 bless your heart with information not personal beleifs
@@HopelessAutistic It’s called having an opinion. Look it up…it’s a thing. If you don’t like opinions, perhaps you should avoid the comment section…just my opinion 👍🏽
The only reason they can slack off because someone is enabling them to do so.
Not all Gen Z are like this. After my son graduated from college, he became a Med sales rep. Didn’t like sales n went back to school n became an RN. His GF is a successful in HR. Very hard working Gen Zs.
You're right. Only 99% are !😂😂😂😂
I went into HR. Great money and plenty of work thanks to the Zers 😂
But over time your child will become resentful when he is making money from work and the others not. Keep him on the right track. By the way good job as a parent not seen very much anymore
Cap
That hate they're lives secretly
How do they afford food, clothing, shelter, computers, smartphones, etc..?
@johnholt2193 Parental enablers. 🙄
What a DISASTER stat that is. Between an entire generation, starting salary went DOWN nearly 20%. Inflation adjusted too. That’s frightening.
As a gen Z 23 year old im blaming it on phones and social media!!
I agree 💯
I think it's probably late stage capitalism that's the problem here
I don’t blame them. And other generations are catching on.
Problem is this: if everyone just starts dropping out of the work force, society will start collapsing if people are unwilling to do the work. Who will maintain infrastructure, deliver your package, stock your grocery store, etc? No matter how much we hate it, our entire world revolves around work.
We dont care
@@tylerharris4392 I think you will when society breaks the fuck down and those services you need won’t be there. I mean, you do realize, you’re typing this comment on a smart phone, right, inside of an air conditioned house or apartment? Who do you think is responsible or maintains that?
@@tbc9096 I'm completely aware of that, we don't iPhones to survive
And exploitation. A general strike will occur before the workforce collapses. This isnt the great depression. Not yet.
Call it the new strike, hopefully companies and the governments will wake and realize we work to provide ourselves with a quality life, so they better give that to us.
We aren’t going to stand for being paid minimum wage on a 10 hr labor intensive shift and not afford any housing or healthcare. They crazy if they think we’re that stupid.
Child sized paychecks for adult work.
Gen Zs are opting in for non-traditional employment. (i.e. gaming, influencing, freelance, etc.)
There in for a reality check only top influencers get paid
@@mikemadsen7926*they're. Punctuation and spelling are hard.
@@Anonymous-wb3nz right because I literally give a f*ck about something I took 1sec to type out in a yt comment section. But thanks for taking time to correct me. Spending time on something that actually matters is hard
@@mikemadsen7926relax psycho
Point #1 presenter said “adopting this mindset” so not even they believe it’s an actual ‘condition’ as they try make it out to be.
Point #2 it’s called laziness. All other generations suffered depression and bouts of hopelessness yet they still hustled. Too much coddling in the home!
All other generations also became alcoholics. What's your point?
@@bawilson999 💯 “excuse” is exactly it. Good for you! 🙌🏼🙌🏼 you are an example to others that should be followed.
I agree I’m a millennial (30) and I’ve had anxiety for most of my adult life but I still had to go to work. I didn’t want to be there but I made the best of it by getting a job that I somewhat liked being at and on my days off I would destress and hangout with friends. Of course they’re never going to get a house if they can’t even work. The laziest generation
It’s a symptom of being punished since we were born
THANK YOU! I noticed this too.
Gen Z is not delusional. They have seen all the mess created by previous generations and decided to not take part of it.
If you don't work, you don't eat. How are these young folks supporting themselves?
Check back in with them in 5-10 yrs. They will have tasted a bit of real life when you have no money or education or skills. Life out there is harsh and cruel and even more so when you are vulnerable to begin with. No one is saying you have to work for a corporation. Start your own biz. But you need training and education and money. Some of us worked in the evil corporate world with a plan to get out and start our thing. Sometimes you have to do stuff you don't like for a while...geeesh
A lot of Gen Z is having severe anxiety issues from being inside all day the quarantine played a huge role
Oh poor babies!
it’s not a “trend.” it’s us not wanting to fix the mess of the economy that YOU have made. you made the economy like this, and expect us to work our butts off to fix it. i barley make enough money to pay my bills and i work 5 days a week 40 hours. so excuseeee us for not wanting to fix something we didn’t do.
It's hard to get a decent job without relevant experience even with a university degree
You could learn a trade. My local vocational school has HVAC tech programs for $6500 get out and start at about $40k a year give it a few years and run your own business. My cousin did this last year he made well over $400k
I was ready to be a cog and work overtime and then I got rejected. My degree wasn't enough for the field. So I said screw it. And now I live with less and enjoy more time.
The message of this video is boomer language for "They just don't want to work for and serve us." Yeah we don't. We have skills and education we just don't want to be a slave to your society. Give us opportunities to work for ourselves, that's what we want.
@@dixonvmusic2737 Yes, calling Grandpa names so he'll give you opportunities! That'll work!🤦
GROW UP and handle your situation like an ADULT. Regardless of whether it is "fair" or who caused it.
In the UK if you tell the doctor you have anxiety or depression you can get signed off sick and put on state benefits. If you rent a property then state benefits provide you far more money than a minimum wage job. I know several people who play the system like this. They play video games most of the day and are happy. Meanwhile the rest of us that are working are having to pay high taxes to fund this stupidity.
It’s an old game and younger people don’t want to play
Gen Z has their parents kissing their assss and they know their parents will support them financially well into their adulthood
Never in my life did I think I would see NEET used in America. I did a research paper on this in college when it was only a Japanese phenomenon. Holy shit.
I zoned out from workforce long ago. Gotta take care of number one and that one is me.
How do you opt out of the workforce ? Who the heck pays your rent - car payment - food - bills ?
Don’t be a sucker. OPT OUT!
These children are staying children longer and acting younger and younger the older they get. Just a shame.
Doesn't help the media is now proclaiming"kids" brains don't finish settling in till age 25
Makes sense since wages are staying lower and lower relative to cost of living.
@@Sloimer So exactly how does lower wages in relation to cost of living lead to children staying younger?
@@istvanfoy-roberts868 because it reduces their sense of morale aspiration to do adult things, such as a house or sports car or financially stable child rearing environment. So they just choose to remain kids instead. Crazy that I need to explain this to you?
@@Sloimer So lower wages mean try less, or give up? If anything, they should be hustling more. Get a backbone. I’m 33 and worked 2 jobs while schooling to be where I’m at today. We’ve all had to hustle out here, unless it’s people who have mommy and daddy’s umbrella to protect them thus enabling them to dodge responsibility for longer and apparently decide to start relishing in not working like it’s some sort of temper tantrum protest that’s going to make them get what they want sooner. Just ridiculous.
Gen-Z increasingly fed up with the narcissistic abuse of management.
what do you expect - employers are not paying enough to make ends meet, they saw their parents get laid off during the outsourcing pitch there is no corporate loyalty, and the generation has consistently been told there will be no work for them AI and robots are taking over. its not rocket science to figure this out.
I'm paid more than enough for my marketable skill set.
I don’t get paid much at 61 and its been this way most of my life. Not on any subsistence and am very content with what God has given me as my lot. Most of Gen Z hate God and so he gives them misery. I am very happy
The currency is dying. Being productive only supports thieving overlords. But you can't say that, can you? You can't describe the reason for the problem.
Weak.
We are so screwed! 😳
Government-supplied basic income via CBDC, paying for ongoing subscription-based perpetual debt. No ownership of anything, no skills to become self sustainable and disempowering hopelessness instilled via media propaganda. All income, services and communications can be cancelled at any time if you get out of line. Slave society accomplished.
So how are they supporting themselves is the question question
Their parents are coddling them.
Welfare
Sometimes you have to do things that you don’t necessarily like doing. It’s like going to the doctor or having to get a cavity filled. If you don’t do it, your teeth are gonna fall out.
What a luxury... they have someone to live off of.
That’s what you get for letting social media raise your kids
No it’s what the boomers and older gen x’ers get for the destroying the work force
This is so out of touch. Just the older generations whining about the young people
Because maybe........the system is the problem?
How are they paying their way???
Their enablers are.
Their parents are coddling them, making things too comfortable for them, & treating them like little children even though they're adults.
I work for about 6months then quit and go broke. Work for 6 months then quit because I can’t tolerate it, and go broke again. I have accepted I’m not going to personally enrich myself but this system allows me a lot more time to be truly free with my consciousness. :) it’s hard but doable
@@margauxwalson8474 I don't know what age you are, but do you have your own home? Do you support yourself completely?
Welfare. I know many who abuse the system.
Call it whatever you want it is actually called lazy
You’d be lazy too if you can’t buy shit with the money you work for
With a name like "Jesus Christ is King" I'd expect more compassion.
@@Chad_MaxGTFO with your masculinity BS. Working hard, saving and investing is a BEHAVIOR, not a gender.
@@stoddard1953So, if learning to catch fish is "too hard", then "JesusChristisKing" should walk on water and bring you a net full of fish every day?
Lazy, no coping skills, no life skills, and terrified of everything.
it's not just "opting out" of the workforce, it's literally lack of accessible jobs and struggles with getting hired while competing with way too many applicants per job listing. then it's the lack of being paid a living wage once you do get hired. the employment market is such a mess and is not working for the people. so why should the people work for it???
They are ripened to accept socialism
You mean by being paid 1990’s wages? Yeah
@@masonhancock5350sure , I feel your pain. Prices doubled in the last 3 years my wage stayed the same. It's all part of the plan. Make us needy. And then make us reliant on government
F--- socialism and F--- American style crony capitalism.😠
@@trustoldpaths1415 IDK what this is, because under Socialism, everybody has to bust their butt at the factory or on the collective farm! Unless you're party chairman or whatever ..
Who is paying for their basics then?? Oh yeah, mom and dad, one more time.
I absolutely refuse to support my adult children. Parents need to stop this nonsense and grow a spine.
Well then don’t eat.
Exactly! This is what Paul said.
Food stamps
Mommy is getting them mcd,s because they don't eat real food and she's paying more threw Uber eats
Yup cuz they see the crazy making of this system to just survive.
And it’s daily getting worse
I'm a millenial and I experience this exact thing. I left the workforce to go back to school. I made that difficult decision for my mental health. But in all honesty, I try not to think of the future and just live in the present.
Work, save, and invest. It's that easy. Refuse to work, don't prepare for the future, and there will be plenty of room for you in a box in the ally way eating garbage. No one is going to help you.
We can see the world is slowly ending in all aspects.
I wish I had that option, but I had to work.
I'm 57 and would love to "opt out of the workforce," but how do they pay the bills??
Well there are plenty of ways. You need to use brain more
@@ExploreMalayaonly fans?
@@Chad_Max So, mom and dad are paying your bills?
Okay boomer you grew up before the economy got nuked for proxy wars, military complex, and banks.
Only if your good looking enough and have a great body..if not it’s not gonna work so well hehe
Can’t buy a house can’t rent - smoke weed live with mom and garden 👍
why can't you rent? oh yeah...zoomers feel entitled to not deal with a roommate situation...forgot
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 Even with roommates, rent is unaffordable. I'm not sure what makes you think gen z doesn't have roommates. Ya'll just makes stuff up. I don't know a single gen z without roommates
Couldn't possibly be social media addiction and downstream effects of covid lockdowns.
Exactly
Not Work and not be able to be pay or..work and STILL not be able to pay rent
@@porkyrabbit Because money can ONLY be spent on rent, not saved to buy a car, house or invested for retirement! Also, roommates don't exist!--Zoomer logic.
That works. They’ll be the only ones who own nothing and are happy. They will rent from me and pay my mortgage, my grocery bills and my car payment because they won’t be able to afford anything else.
@KhanumBallZ and yet, you’ll do it anyway if you’re part of the me me me group that says I want what I want when I want it. These are eternal spiritual laws that govern the universe. There is no escaping them. You can ignore them at your own peril. We all reap what we sow. No one is exempt, myself included. Why not learn the laws and live truly happy, rather than selfish? Those are the only two choices.
How are they going to support themselves?
That's the million $ question? so far I haven't heard an answer to that question.
@@zemorakeller6725the Lord will provide.
It's not worth it
Blame social media
I blame capitalism
So who pays their bills?
When Grand Theft Auto VI drops I’m gonna join them
As much as I like teasing gen z, I don’t blame them.
Billionaires, Millionaires and Boomer retirees about to find out what happens when you selfishly abandon an entire generation and refuse to protect them from gun violence. Billionaires need worker more than workers need billionaires 🤷♂️.
Nah, they'll just import foreign workers. Lol
So they don't "believe" in making a contribution to society. How convenient.
Exactly! Your comment is at the base. So many miss this
The society gives them nothing in return and you expect them to just blindly get fucked by a system that doesn’t care for them?
@@NO-kc4xb That system is currently feeding them - housing them - clothing them - amusing them - transporting them. And they contribute NOTHING.
@@peachmango5347 What young person do you know is able to get a house alone? How many people are screaming that they don’t even have enough to put food in the table? What you stated is the bare minimum and not even that is provided in exchange lol.
@@NO-kc4xb Tell me what the last time was where a young person could get a house alone? Hmmm...I think that was about 60 years ago...get real ...that has not been a thing forever...has nothing to do with Gen Z...its a been a dual income household for decades on end. Gen Z has highly unrealistic expectations on how an adult actually creates a successful lifestyle...they treat life like a list of checkboxes...get college degree in anything - check - hey where's my house?? Ridiculous.
So we are paying for them?
gen z-ers spend way too much time on social media
So they’ve opted to be lazy and left behind…..
Sad generation.
When I graduated from high school in 1960 no entry level job paid enough to live on your own. After college the same was true for all but professional positions. Ask folks our age how we managed. Are you willing to do what we had to do??
Stop lying
Almost like people are tired of wage slavery
I am 29. It is super hard to get a job. And then when you do, oftentimes it’s just a bullshit job
28 here, can confirm
Where are they getting money to support themselves.
Gen Z seems more lazier than millennials
They don't work but some how can afford their living standards. These ppl are not homeless but are peppered in amongst the working class. Milking public funds because of their invisible illnesses. Doctors raking it in on a generation that was taught no life skills, over diagnosing and prescribing straight to the bank.
An amazing cure for this would be like it was prior to the loose public assistance and student aide, you work or you don't have life's necessities.
And YES the COL needs to be addressed. Not much incentive to contribute to society as a whole if you can't even break bread.