Is it just me or are young adults under the age of 25 just plain lazy?

Millennials were kind of the tail end of the people who put in the effort to succeed. The current generation, Zoomers I think they call 'em, those are the ones that seem pretty entitled. Not all of them mind you but the entitled ones seem to be a larger proportion of the population.

 

Yep the Zoomers have Zoomed out of reality and into fantasy land, YouTube and Instagram are their preferred jobs now......and showing off large amounts of cash, they care about instant rich schemes over working hard.....

 

Entitlement seems to be something that spreads to all age groups. Social media has literally ruined people. Any venture into public leaves me disgusted.

 

This really shows the reality. Kids today don't want to work because they don't get paid for it. Not nearly to the same extent as the older generations did. What's the point of working when minimum wage won't even pay for a place to live, let alone food.

Remember the fight for $15/h minimum wage? With inflation that $15/h should now be $22/h. The older generations had it super easy and now they complain about the younger generation having it easy when it's not even comparable.

 

When I graduated highschool right at the start of a prior recession I had 2 choices: pump gas for $8/hour for 25-28 hours a week. Or hop in my pickup with a stack of resumes and start driving, applying at every place that looked interesting until I found a job that'd get me going in life. No regrets about taking that drive.

 

It can absolutely be done today if one is very frugal. Problem is everyone thinks they are entitled to high standards of living. Best phone. Best clothes. Best car. $5-6 dollar coffee/iced drinks/energy drinks every day. Then complain that $15 ain’t enough Well, it shouldn’t be something lived on forever. I know lots of people that were single parents making crap money and survived.

These stupid girls with the long fake pointy nails and ridiculous looking fake eyelashes. Tanning beds. That all is expensive. Yet they continue to do it and the parents support it.

 

The little things add up. Just a large double double at Tim Hortons is $2. That's $14/week. Almost $730/year if you get one every day. The fancy $5-6 coffees you're referencing, that's $1800-$2200 a year. I can make 2 cups a day at home in my $100 coffee pot for about $120 a year.

That's JUST for coffee. Add in all that other unneccessary crap and you can save tons.

 

A lot of them seem clueless to reality. Almost like they’re out of touch. I suspect they’re much smarter than they seem. Their minds are preoccupied somewhere in cyberspace. The Industrial Age is gone. The technology/Information age is upon us. It’s a whole different world in a lot of ways. The information available now is endless. The way people communicate has changed drastically. The older generations, like myself, don’t get it. I don’t think the younger generation’s as lazy as they seem to be. They’re just doing things differently. Many have no desire to toil their lives away in factories, or other menial jobs. I don’t blame them. The idea that a real job includes physically working, as much as possible to get ahead, as I was taught, isn't really true anymore. The good paying jobs that anyone can be taught to do are gone. The younger generation knows this, and isn’t interested in wasting their lives at dead end jobs. As far as being lazy, that’s nothing new. Applies to all the generations. Except for mine!! Lol!!