My hypothesis is that older generations define “hard work” mostly with mindless repetitive drudgery, where younger people expect to be inspired by their tasks and resent drudgery. It’s the difference between defining “hard work” by enduring burden or defining it by complex problem solving. Society has pounded into our brains that drudgery is inefficient and meant to be avoided through innovation, not embraced.
Fair. Higher immune response too
like in accounting for instance, you didn't have computer programs to do all of the repetitive calculations.
Yeah - tried to find it to post here, but I read an article that basically quoted previous generations (Greatest about boomers, silent about gen x, boomers about millennials, even quotes from antiquity - Aristotle, etc.) that were saying the exact same thing. Every generation romanticizes their own youth and generation's qualities/values and sees current youth as not as with it their own.
Oh, god yes. I remember as a teen sitting in church before Sunday School with a bunch of old men in the back pews (WW2 vets mostly) and listening to them complain about my generation (Gen X) as being lazy, soft, addicted to video game arcades, disrespectful, and all the rest. It's rather disappointing now that Gen X is in their 50s and 60s to hear them doing the same damn thing, except now I see it on facebook and other social media. And it's the exact same stuff I heard back then - younger people today don't want to work hard, they're wild and reckless, they don't like their music or dress or appearance, pretty much everything was better back in the day, people had higher standards back then, etc. Many of the people I know who are saying these things are having health issues or other problems related to getting older, and I think in the end they complain because of exactly what you said - it's not because younger generations really are inferior, the truth is they don't like them because they're still young and healthy and have their lives ahead of them. There's an awful lot of bitterness in the posts I see, and the bottom line is that many of these folks are getting old and hate it, and they definitely romanticize the 1970s and 80s as some kind of forgotten golden age.
But the "greatest generation" would have argued, "Who you got, Dre or the artists Dre sampled?"
Have you read a lot of his stuff? He seems pretty reasonable to me, at least the vast majority of the time. He's a pretty normie left of center blogger who also is weirdly into bunnies? I'm sure, like all of the high volume blogger types, he's said some dumb/wrong stuff occasionally too. Just surprised at such a strong opinion.
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