[encrypted_bird]

Thank you. This is no better than that terribly disingenuous argument that "nobody wants to work". No, we'd love to work. But we also value not starving to death and having some semblance of work-life balance.

[throwaway48476]

Someone dug into newspaper archives and found an example of the "nobody wants to work anymore" phrase every year for the last 100 years. The phrase likely predates the printing press.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32161426

[mangodrunk]

Thanks for sharing. Here’s the snopes article confirming the articles referenced: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymo...

[encrypted_bird]

This doesn't surprise me in the least. It's the same thing with older people claiming moral degeneration with younger generations.

[dylan604]

Or every generations' younger crowd that think the olds are senile fools that have no clue about anything today and mainly tolerated and polite to as long as they are in the room, but then immediately make fun of them as soon as they leave. As if there's no wisdom that could be shared from their experience. The folly of youth thinking they are invincible is equal to this so called claiming of moral degeneration.

[encrypted_bird]

Yes, that too. I fully agree. Both ends of the age spectrum have valuable contributions; one denigrating the other provides no value.

[krapp]

>But we also value not starving to death and having some semblance of work-life balance.

But the free market has decided you're barely worth the cost to keep alive, much less happy. What are you, some kind of communist?

[drivingmenuts]

I think the free market is trying to decide if we’re even worth the cost of, well, anything.

[encrypted_bird]

Democratic socialist actually. I believe markets are fine but that there needs to be strong worker protections. (I know you were joking, but I figured I'd answer honestly anyway. Hehe.)