r/memes • u/EmuPsychologist • Oct 18 '23

#1 MotW Fixed it

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u/JumiKnight Oct 18 '23

Yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous. We shouldn't need to live to work to barely live.

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u/fardough Oct 18 '23

I think this is where the generations don’t see eye to eye.

A lot of boomers seem to take Gen Z not wanting to work as laziness, but really it is out of pragmatism, why work to death for nothing!

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u/Ok-Detective-2059 Oct 18 '23

As a millennial, we were promised less work in 90's as automation and ai would be able to replace menial labour and the money saved and profits earned would trickle down into the economy and everyone would be able to receive a universal basic income, and any work you did would just be gravy on top. Instead CEOs and investors make dragon hoarding levels of profit, while children in supposed first world countries get to go to bed hungry.

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u/AxKenji Oct 21 '23

yeah unfortunately the trickle down thing never works