<story><title>&apos;Nobody Wants to Work Anymore&apos; Meme Cites Real Newspaper Articles</title><url>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kortex</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sure if we dig deep enough, we can probably find clay tablets impressed with gripes about lazy workers and insolent children. Socrates famously groused about &amp;quot;kids these days&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Children began to be the tyrants, not the slaves, of their households. They no longer rose from their seats when an elder entered the room; they contradicted their parents, chattered before company, gobbled up the dainties at table, and committed various offences against Hellenic tastes, such as crossing their legs.&lt;p&gt;- Socrates, ~400 BCE [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;quoteinvestigator.com&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;misbehave&amp;#x2F;?amp=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;quoteinvestigator.com&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;misbehave&amp;#x2F;?amp=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] previously: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32161426&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32161426&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>&apos;Nobody Wants to Work Anymore&apos; Meme Cites Real Newspaper Articles</title><url>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ldjkfkdsjnv</author><text>True story, as an american, most people I grew up with are not working corporate jobs. Of my cousins, probably 60% are willfully unemployed and refuse to work for anyone. They make money through odd jobs, day trading, selling online products. Anything to not have to work. The crazy thing is they are generally very happy and have had not trouble dating. Its the people day in and out in their 150k-300k a year corporate job that seem the most miserable to me.&lt;p&gt;For reference I&amp;#x27;m white upper middle class, and all the people spoken about above are college educated.</text></comment>