cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13942559
(water is wet and fire is hot).
We all are, what’s so special about millennials?
Millennials are exhausted by working more for less.
Submitted 7 months ago by M0oP0o@mander.xyz to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/05/millennials-are-exhausted-by-working-more-for-less
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Splatterphace@lemm.ee 7 months ago
xep@fedia.io 7 months ago
Probably found that adding that to the title increased the number of views.
rigatti@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We like avocados or something.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Something, something, catchy headline…
penquin@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Right? We are all slaving our lives away for barely making it, if at all.
EnderMB@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Many millennials are reaching their “peak earning potential” years. They’re special because it’s often around this time that people make choices around having children, how to sustain families while working, etc.
Many millennials can barely afford rent, are struggling to own anywhere where there are any jobs, and have nothing saved for retirement - something that should be coming for some them in twenty years time.
Economies take a long time to recover and rebuild. We’re reaching a point where it’s likely that many millennials will retire without ever seeing a strong economy. Even if we all decided to rise up and eat Bezos, Gates, Musk, Zuck, and co, by the time that wealth trickles down to us, we’ll be too old to get any of it. That’s why millennials are special.
Minotaur@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Barring the specific mention of Milennials, it’s kind of funny that this is probably the most common headline in history.
Like you can look at Ben Franklins newspaper from 1742 and find essentially the exact same line. I’m guessing if we had enough cuneiform to translate it’d be there too
conquer4@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not sure, it might be: “people just don’t want to work anymore” instead
grue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Like you can look at Ben Franklins newspaper from 1742 and find essentially the exact same line.
I went to franklinpapers.org and skimmed over all the documents labeled “Extract from the Gazette, 1742,” but I didn’t find that line. Do you know which issue it was in, or have a source with full copies of the Pennsylvania Gazette instead of just “extracts?”
Minotaur@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Apologies for the confusion. I am not literally quoting a specific year in which Benjamin Franklins newspaper said this exact line. Just, as someone who has read several biographies on the man, a recurring theme of his writings (both personal and professional, including quips in the almanac) essentially boil down to pithy remarks of “everyone is working harder now and getting less for it”.
It’s just kind of a universal experience that essentially every generation has felt.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Some might call it boring… if a little bit dystopic.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I paid all my bills this week and only had $500 left over for 2 weeks for a family of 4 lol idk how we will make it without using a credit card since food will cost us more than that. I make a very high salary too. We were comfortable for so long then the prices just got insane. We have cut back a lot too but can’t escape this pay check to pay check cycle. I feel trapped now
vin@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Stop working more you dipshits
scottrepreneur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You want even less?
vin@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
If you think that by working more hours, your salary would increase overall, you’re wrong. Have some basic understanding of game theory, microeconomics and worker solidarity.
Melkath@kbin.social 7 months ago
I, at 37, am reaching my first professional opportunity to manage a support resource I've needed for 5 years, to maintain the data infrastructure I have built that has cut and dry made my company at least 40 million dollars in the past 2 years, but arguably has also saved the company at least 250k in manpower hours each year.
That resource is an outsourced individual from a firm in India who is making a slave wage.
I am also still severely undercompensated.
I wanna flip the monopoly board.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Best thing I ever did was quit the job I went to school for to sell drugs. I would say my only regret is not starting a business and going to collage 15 years ago.
The amount of sacrifice we make for the places we work for is not fully appreciated.
Melkath@kbin.social 7 months ago
I mean... ever consider opening a dispensary?
I can't stand sales, but it sounds like it would be a solid move for you.
Infinite@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Work on not referring to people as resources.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Spoken like a true resource
TheBat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Indian employees earn anywhere between 1/8-1/16 of an American employee. And their annual raise is also paltry af.
If that employee is technically competent, he’s not going to stay for more than 2 years, if that.
Melkath@kbin.social 7 months ago
My hope is that in our time together, I can teach them some stuff that elevates then out of the aforementioned slave wage.