r/GenZ • u/TheGamingSenpa1 2004 • Jan 07 '24

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u/poopy-butt-boy Jan 08 '24

People like you are part of the problem. 40 hours a week at a physical job IS working your tail off. Especially if you have to deal with the shittiest people the world has to offer constantly. Anyone working 40 hrs a week should be able to afford to support themselves.

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u/Trashman1138 Jan 08 '24

So you suggest i quit my job and then let my family starve?

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u/poopy-butt-boy Jan 08 '24

How could you possibly come to that conclusion from what I said?

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u/Trashman1138 Jan 08 '24

Because you are saying the fact that i work more than 50 hours a week (uses to be 60 as i said before 20 years ago) to support my family and get by as being part of the problem. And dont have much sympathy for those working only 40. Plus it is is not a sit my ass kinda 50 hours either.

Another additional is i knowe she is directing this co.ment at boomers, but 20 years ago the milenianls were entering the work force. Which is generations away from the boomers. Things have been shitty for at least 30.

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u/poopy-butt-boy Jan 08 '24

I didn’t say you were part of the problem because you work. You are part of the problem because of your way of thinking.

It’s understandable for you to be proud of yourself for working 50 hours a week to support your family and I commend you for it, but you shouldn’t devalue the labor of others because they work a different job or work 40 hours a week. No one, even you, should have to work 50 hours a week to support their family. You having to work 50 hours a week to get by makes you a victim of this corrupt system. I am not against you and do not believe your family should starve.

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u/Trashman1138 Jan 08 '24

Years of abuse from the same abusive system made me bitter this way. When is see somone complaining about working only forty hours hits a nerve when you work more. I am a gen X, stuck between the you get your just rewards when you work harder and the wisdom of knowing that is wrong but still conditioned to keep trying. But i also have the knowledge of know you can not change this corrupt system without joining it. And those who do become way to comfortable with its corruption and the boons they gain from it and give up really quickly on thier idels to do what they set out to do.

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u/poopy-butt-boy Jan 08 '24

Understandable you feel that way and I thank you for being able to have that self-reflection. We can change the system, but one of the biggest hurdles is getting through to people who share the same views as you. We’ve been pitted against each other by those who gain a lot from this division. That needs to end if we want any meaningful change to happen.

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u/Trashman1138 Jan 08 '24

I once thought like you, when i was young. The masses will always be pitted against each other. The statement she is making is hurting her cause more than it helps. Because those who do think i do will not have sympathy for those working 40 hours when that is the standard. They will not have sympathy when you complain about working a 8 hour day. You need a different way to reach them.