[z3c0]

I'm catching a whiff of straw... There's a fundamental distinction between a relative statement eg "People are working less than they were before" and an absolute statement eg "Nobody wants to work anymore". What you've demonstrated falls into the former.

[goatcode]

Relationships in time work transitively -- if each successive generation is worse, they're by definition worse than any have been before. See: Peter Gibbons and how his life is the worst its ever been, each new day.