<story><title>A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noduerme</author><text>except for every generation in America other than the boomers and their kids, who all learned what Aristotle was referring to by the age of 12 or 13. Plus people in every third world country on earth, who would give their left nut to find work, make money and raise a family in America.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s definitely a crisis in America of people who&amp;#x27;ve never worked not wanting to work. And it&amp;#x27;s the ultimate first world problem. If you want to tackle privilege instead of getting a relatively shitty job in your 20s... you&amp;#x27;re probably privileged as hell.</text></item><item><author>tschwimmer</author><text>People have been complaining about this since literally before Christ.&lt;p&gt;“[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, 
nor have they experienced the force of circumstances.
...
They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”
-Aristotle</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msbarnett</author><text>“There’s definitely a crisis of nobody wanting to work anymore, unlike the last hundred years of people saying this”&lt;p&gt;lol c’mon. The ol’ “$CURRENT_GENERATION is uniquely weak&amp;#x2F;lazy&amp;#x2F;bad, unlike $SPEAKER_OWN_GENERATION” chestnut is a nice touch, I’ll give you that.</text></comment>
<story><title>A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noduerme</author><text>except for every generation in America other than the boomers and their kids, who all learned what Aristotle was referring to by the age of 12 or 13. Plus people in every third world country on earth, who would give their left nut to find work, make money and raise a family in America.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s definitely a crisis in America of people who&amp;#x27;ve never worked not wanting to work. And it&amp;#x27;s the ultimate first world problem. If you want to tackle privilege instead of getting a relatively shitty job in your 20s... you&amp;#x27;re probably privileged as hell.</text></item><item><author>tschwimmer</author><text>People have been complaining about this since literally before Christ.&lt;p&gt;“[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, 
nor have they experienced the force of circumstances.
...
They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”
-Aristotle</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wishfish</author><text>From what I can tell, people in America generally work and they work hard. American productivity is usually high. I&amp;#x27;m not seeing any large waves of unproductive twentysomethings.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s always strange to me when critics look at this highly productive country, where many people work hard with fewer benefits &amp;amp; protections than other nations, and then call those people lazy.</text></comment>