It may have been the case before that people thought hard work brought a better life, but now things have changed
Professor Bobby Duffy worked on the study, and said that millennials have ‘become much more sceptical about prioritising work as they’ve made their way through their career’.
The decline of unions will do that to you. We’re in a second Gilded Age.
Unions didn’t decline.
They’ve been systematically busted for the last 5 and a half decades.
Books are where it’s at!
I’m self employed. I enjoy my work. It’s very rewarding, but every time i get a little extra money sometime comes along and takes it.
I have no retirement savings. My retirement plan is to kill myself when I’m too sick to work. I’ve made sure my life insurance is written so that it will pay out to my wife even if I off myself.
I come from a long line of men who don’t die easy. I watched my grandfather refuse food or water after being diagnosed with stage 4 bone cancer and still live for two weeks. That was after ten years of enduring strike recovery. My dad coughed up a lung from congestive heart failure for over two years before finally wasting away, looking like a pregnant Holocaust survivor. Same for several other uncles and great-uncles. I figure I’ve got another 25 years before I’m a liability. I’m already physically miserable. Middle age sucks. Old age sucks even harder and I’m not even there yet.
I’m gonna follow one of my great-uncles examples and go for a walk in the woods. I’ll make sure whatever SARs volunteer that draws the short straw isn’t too traumatized when they find me. Just another old man that chose his own time
ETA: to be clear, i don’t wish to die (any more than normal lol). But I am pragmatic about the reality of old age and my likely path. Will I feel the same in 25-35 years? Maybe not. We’ll see what happens. Perhaps our fortunes will change for the better, perhaps we will be able to immigrate to a nation that has better social safety nets, perhaps we die in a meteor strike in 2039
Gotcha, subsistence farming it is
Unironically this. I knew a guy who used pandemic remote work ubiquitousness to buy a huge farm, move to it, start growing all the food he and his family needed all while working as a software dev. He hated “work” but LOVED working.
I worked hard. Busted my ass for almost 10 years. Almost made it over 100k a year and then BOOM. Mass layoffs, lottery style. I got another job but at half the pay, the best available pay for the area.
The game is rigged against anyone who isn’t already rich.
Hard work only brings a better life to the person who signs your paycheck.
If hard work brought success, the donkey would own the farm
I mean, that is objectively true now. Hard work just gets you more work.
