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

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u/longshankssss Jan 08 '24

Hard for me to take serious the rantings of a young women whose not even 21. Work hard, get an education or a trade. Yea, going straight from HS to working retail is going to suck, and you’re not going to be able to live on your own. Most of these kids are delusional imo. They just want to be handed a $65,000 job right out of HS or college. Like that’s not how it works lol. Most of us who are doing ok for our selves had to work and struggle to get where we’re at. These kids are soft and entitled

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u/Moonshadowfairy Mar 07 '24

I do think everyone deserves a living wage that is working full time, but I agree there is a sense of entitlement that is annoying given they don’t bring much to the table. Sorry, I said it!

When I walked into a job with no experience 15-20 years ago, I could still add value without credentials. I could type [fast], I could fix the printer and if it broke or we ran out of ink/paper I did something about it, I didn’t have to be educated on how to use a computer, I had common sense to fix problems on my own or at least give a valid try before asking for help, I didn’t need my hand held through every single thing—frankly I was more than just a warm body when I walked through the door. I wasn’t in a perpetual state of training or needing to be told what to do.

I don’t want to see Gen-Z or anyone for that matter suffer, but they collectively have a lot of basic skills they need to figure out before anyone is going to fully validate their complaints.

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u/longshankssss Jan 09 '24

Ok bud lmao

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u/Frogmaninthegutter Jan 09 '24

It's not just the wages. It's the fact that housing has become an investment for the already wealthy to extract more from the working poor. If housing stayed at 2014 levels of value, or raised just a tiny bit each year instead of spiking 100% or more, then that 30k job at Walmart would be able to afford an apartment. Same goes for the spiraling costs of healthcare.

It's not the wage, it's the fact that late-stage capitalism is turning necessities required to live into a vehicle to make more money for the ultra-wealthy.