'Nobody Wants to Work Anymore' Meme Cites Real Newspaper Articles
I'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 "kids these days".<p>> 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.<p>- Socrates, ~400 BCE [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/?amp=1" rel="nofollow">https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/?amp=1</a><p>[2] previously: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32161426" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32161426</a>