Comment on Nobody wants to work anymore...
Footer1998@crazypeople.online 1 day ago
nobody ever wanted to work, we work to make our lives better.
almost no gen Z have any investment in the concept of work for the sake of work that some older generations seem to venerate
maybe its because older generations feel like the society they live in is something they want to “give back” to, but for me, this society fucking sucks and every day i wish the crude oil price would go higher and higher so this sucker finally crashes and burns
Osan@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Working is not giving back to society when most of us work for corporations and millionaires who’s entire purpose is to exploit said society. This fact might have been less obvious than it’s now especially when young people don’t feel their work is respected or appreciated in this system anymore.
It’s not that society inherently sucks but it has been plagued by systems of oppression and exploitation for so long that it needs emergency surgery.
Footer1998@crazypeople.online 4 hours ago
those systems of oppression and exploitation go back hundreds and maybe even thousands of years, at what point do you not recognize that it just sucks
Osan@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I call it the grow-explode-grow theory
A powerful kingdom turns into a tyrannical empire. Empires grow and exploit others till they collapse due to too much power concentration and fewer people benefiting from it. Then smaller kingdoms and republics are built on the ruins of empires. The cycle repeats. It depends on which unfortunate part of the cycle you happened to exist. Also with modern globalisation and capitalism it seems the different parts of the world are now in sync with each other which makes “the empires” even stronger but their eventual collapse more detrimental.
Footer1998@crazypeople.online 4 hours ago
empires rise and fall but the fall doesn’t ever make things better, it just changes who is doing all of the exploitation and often makes things worse.