There Is a Much Larger Problem Than the Great Resignation
What&#x27;s &quot;up&quot; isn&#x27;t strictly generational, but a question of who&#x27;s fallen into a black hole where they waste their time on social media and have no work ethic because they&#x27;ve never felt the slightest need or pressure to scrub toilets or bus tables. I&#x27;m thankful to be from a generation where we had to do grunt work, from well before 16, and where friends were people you hung out with in real life when your job was done. What we&#x27;re really seeing is the halo effect of pampering and coddling of kids - via helicopter parenting in the &#x27;00s and then social media complaints about life going forward. This is different in a fundamental way: If anyone had complained they were too good to do hard work in the &#x27;90s, you would have risked being seen as an elite rich snob. In fact a lot of my friends rejected college and went into trades or trucking because it was &quot;HONEST WORK&quot;... because they were embarrassed to be the kind of lazy people who would put on a tie and sit at a desk. I always thought that was a little stupid and selling themselves short, but it was at least an honest emotional response to the idea of people who seemed to sit on their ass all day and make money by doing nothing. What&#x27;s changed here is that the entire basic concept of that - the conceit that led to it - still revolved around an idea that making money was essential to having a complete life. That&#x27;s been obliterated by a tidal wave of political viewpoints you&#x27;re supposed to adopt about capitalism and labor, which you can spend your time scrolling through and parroting on Twitter while they sell you ads to spend (presumably your parents&#x27;) hard-earned cold-eyed capitalist money on toys, instead of facing the reality of showing up for a job that isn&#x27;t &quot;good enough for you&quot;.<p>The boomers did a real bad job of raising their kids.