Gen Z Doesn't Want To Work Anymore | Asmongold Reacts 

They dont pay good workers more, they give them more work

There's a lot of people making wayyyy too much money doing ridiculously little work and way too many people making ridiculously little money working way too hard.

My issue isn't the 40 hour work week. It's the fact that a 40 hour work week isn't enough anymore

"You can't buy a house with 15/h". Can't pay rent either.

Our parents raised us for a world that doesn't exist anymore.

It's because the 40 hour week was made when one income was enough for a family. You'd come back home after work and dinner is cooked, house is clean and you just relax with your family.

“You can build a cabin in the woods” not without an expensive license that says you can. It’s illegal to just go do that.

I don't mind working, I just want to make enough to own my house and put food on the table. That's enough.

Millennials were realizing this too at their age. We just didn't have all the social media, internet integration, and widespread high-end devices to make it widely-recorded. The "work yourself to death" culture that big businesses have made several generations actually believe is good and what should be is disgustingly over-prevalent in first-world countries.

Hard work used to change your life. Now hard work makes you barely survive. No shit people don't want to do it anymore, it's not worth it

the problem isnt 40 hour work week, the problem is 40 hour work week and you can only pay either rent, food or bills, pick one

The "get a better job" argument is so ignorant to the situation. Imagine if every low-income employee just "got a better job". So many industries (even necessary ones) would begin to fail.

I dont care about 40 hour work weeks I just dont want to do that and STILL feel like im constantly struggling

Who wants to spend more than half their day to achieve someone else's dream?

Who the fuck DOES want to work?

"47-year-old guy in a Thor T-shirt that hasn't showered in a week that is amazing at his job" - *I feel indirectly called out.*

Kids are getting spawn camped. What a great analogy.

The thing is; I don't buy new phones or luxury items - I don't spend money on fast food or any of the kind. There was a period of time I worked 6 days a week, 3AM starts in a bakery. The boss literally treated the workers as disposable which is the real "straw that broke that camels back" for me. At that point, I was spending quite literally all of my energy at that workplace, and all of my money into surviving and the boss wants to come in and talk shit? Instead of throwing a brick through his window after resigning, I just called in the labor department (he refused lunchbreaks and constantly complained about wage-theft when I rocked up only 5 mins before work) -- who did nothing about it. This was like the 6th or 7th job I've had that was quite similar. Rent is like 50% of the income, food ontop - gas to get to work and yeah your entire life energy and resources are being consumed by a shitty workplace.

Man I'm 40 and I've hated working since I started in my 20s. Tried IT, Software Development, and being a pilot. Work sucks and thanks to constant inflation, it's like you're never getting ahead.

My salary hasnt increased in 5 years while they announce every year they hiting record profits and every year they want 25% more work to be done. Without giving us anything in return how are we supposed to afford anything. Before u start saying get a better job this job still pays better than 80% than any other in my area for a CNC programer.

The girl's not wrong about the fluorescent lighting thing. At some point humanity forgot the lessons it learned about overly intense electric lighting from early days light bulbs. Bankers and accountants, 100 years ago, wore green visors for a reason.

I don't want to work, but my desire to live with societal conveniences outweigh it.

The guy with the house: the bigger issue is they went up 200-300% in the last five years. It’s not the same thing and people need to stop pretending it is.

It's not that the dude at 20:00 is wrong, it's that his advice is tonedeaf. Things have gotten worse, undeniably so. As in: can not be disputed. If you look at the average wage, mortgage and the average house price from today and contrast it to the average wage, mortgage and average house price of 30 years ago, you need to work approximately 8-12 years longer to be able to afford a similar home (depending on where you are). Because this is not feasible, people feel forced to take on multiple jobs, or at least secure a job that allows them to work a minimum of 50 hours a week. I won't even argue with anyone: negative health effects of working more than 40 hours a week and positive health effects of working 32 hours a week, are proven fact at this point. It is not that people CAN'T buy houses, it is that people are letting you know they are being overworked. The dude's argument is: 'but... you can just overwork and then you'll be able to afford it?' Like, yeah, everyone knows. That's the problem.

40h week is fine but make it so i can fucking afford shit after that. you work 40h week and still cant afford shit

I’m getting real sick of this trend of “damn an entire generation of people does something because it’s on TikTok” ngl

You see a lot of people saying "I bought a house" when they finance it. No sir you did not buy it, you asked the bank to buy it for you and now you're paying them back for that favor for decades

My dad worked 3 jobs to buy his first house at 25 for 90k in the ghetto. After my mom left he sold the house and used the equity to start a car dealership that has stayed in business over 20 years. He did this by himself while raising 2 kids. We lived in an apartment for 8 years while he saved to buy the house he lives in now.

It's super dystopian to think that having parents with a house is a big privilege. Let that sink in

Im sick of people saying we should just shut up and deal with low wages and high home prices. We are dealing with it, but were speaking out because we want things to change. No systemic change has ever happened in history because people sat around quietly.

Bro I'm 27 with 3 kids and a wife. I work 50+ minimum. I don't want to work because even if it was 80+ Ill never afford a house and I only see my family for like 3 hours a day. Edit: I gotta clear a couple things up for everyone commenting the same stuff without reading the other comments. 1. I'm not complaining about my situation I have it so well off it's crazy, my credit was 760 (irs screwed me over this year on return so I couldn't pay off a medical bill right away dropped to 720). 2. Me having 3 kids that will live with me for 18+ years doesn't make the housing situation worse right now while millions of immigrants are granted tax payer money 3. I don't live near a city my town has a population of 1,200 there are surrounding towns/cities with populations of like 15k 40k and 60k 4. Im actually making more money with my kids because I pay less taxes and we don't pay for child care because my wife is able to stay home.and be an amazing mom. 5. All of you without kids/wife like my friend who works with me and has managed to save 80k but still can't afford a house that's not a complete tear down. Housing is still expensive for you guys and that's what I was talking about. Housing costs are insane. 6. Don't blame me for having kids and an amazing job, blame our government, our society, predatory loans and interest rates for why we can't have it as good as our grandparents.

Where is he eating out that is $10 per person? Mcdonalds is more than that and that is literally supposed to be the cheapest place to go lol. My go to meal at taco bell is $14 and its only 2 burritos and a drink. I could easily eat more than that when I'm actually starving hungry.

My problem is that when I come home, I have to do chores for 1-2 hours. After I'm done with that I eat, and then when that's done it's pretty much time to go to bed.

Being stupid shouldn't ruin your life is an underrated quote

Truth is the world is just so morally bankrupt, disgusting, and decaying that nobody sees a future anymore. There is no desire to work your life away to live in a world thats just going to keep getting worse and worse.

Shit, just realised that I'm the scruffy 40 year old bloke that doesn't have to wear a suit at work because I'm the only one who knows how shit works, gonna buy myself another loud Hawaiian shirt to celebrate.

My ONLY problem with the modern work environment: You used to be able to have a nice house, 2 cars, take vacations, save for retirement, update the house, etc… on a single GOOD income or dual OKAY incomes. That’s not the case anymore. You need two GOOD incomes if you want the above. On top of that, we’re FAR more efficient (due to technology) than our parents. Yet somehow, we have less buying power.

“There are plenty of jobs and side hustles” meanwhile in reality there are fake job listings, scams, MLMs, and a lot of what looks like opportunity, and give people an excuse to say “there are so many jobs out there”

Why would they want to work? You get nothing for it. You will never buy a house. You will never get ahead. You're just spinning your wheels in the mud and wasting your limited life for nothing.

My husband has two full time jobs. I’ve got one job and I’m pregnant. We’re living with my parents because we can’t afford to move out. And we don’t live in a big city. We live in Kentucky. I’m also trying to apply for Medicaid because my husband’s job promised him insurance after three months and then decided against it despite the fact that he’s been a standout employee from the beginning. And I had to order a birth certificate, which could take a month. So it’s looking like I’ll be 5 months pregnant before I can go to a single doctor’s appointment. This country is garbage. If you can get by without putting in effort, do that. I don’t blame any of you.

It’s no longer just about how many hours you work; wages have not kept up with inflation and the cost of living. A 40-hour workweek used to be sufficient when wages could cover living expenses with some extra. However, companies decided to outsource jobs to increase their profits. The main beneficiaries of this outsourcing are shareholders and top executives, while it has led to wage suppression to compete with cheaper overheads thus causing wage stagnation for most working class.

Well I just saw Boeing ceo give himself 45% raise last year while some workers at Boeing got a 8 years contract with 1% raise… ppl want to work, they just don’t want to live to work

While a bit whiny the kid has a point. Most of the good paying middle class jobs were trotted off overseas so the ruling class could make yet more profit. Not a lot of options out there today unless you’re into service industry and the pay is horrible.

Nepotism babies & pretty privilege 101

I dislike these transparently disparaging intergenerational circlejerks. I believe the younger generation is simply fed up with being taken advantage of. Major, major difference than not wanting to work at all imho

Honestly if you've ever worked 4 10-hour shifts, you'll realize how amazing 3days off is.

I work 60 hours one week and 80 every other week making 35 an hour until I hit 40 hours then it's 53 an hour, I can't afford a house and I'll never retire... I never see anyone... I never do anything... I make more than both my parents did combined at my age, and they owned multiple houses by my age.... this needs to end or I'm going to kill myself.

I both agree with Asmon, but also highly disagree. His knowledge on the manufacturing industry, wages, and the overall industrial sector, is absolute garbage that is full of misinformation. I'm a welder with my own business. Manufacturing is the new low wage job. When you have 15 years experience in skilled labor, but you can make more at McDonald's....something is wrong.

Genz doesn't like being slaves. Can't blame em.

I don't mind working. I actually go a little crazy when I'm not working. I just wanna be paid enough to have a life.

Folks are so focused on the income side, but we ignore the fact we've legislated a middle class lifestyle into a requirement. You can't just build a shed, wire it up and dig an 8 ft hole to use the bathroom in to live super simply. Building codes require all the amenities and neighbors will raise hell about property values. You have to have a car to get around. We've even made living outside illegal! So even if you want to live super simply you can't.

Making a male AI robot will be harder. He will have to make it at least $100,000 a year and drive a very expensive car and look good in a tuxedo.

Always accountability for the poor. Never for the ones that created the system.

Underlying issue is, working your butt off only to be able to live.

The people who say "welcome to real life" are fing insane. Like yeah this is real life, sure, but do you WANT this to be real life? Like a get a grip, it's OKAY to be upset with the way the world works right now.

I say this as a fromer maintenance worker from walmart , they forced me to clean the deli shelves and push shopping carts in the parking lot due to lazy coworkers. All I'm going to say is maintenance should be able tax the lazy departments, Whats that you want us to clean up those carts and its going to take two hours? okay dox the cart pushers two hours pay and give it to us , whats that deli department doesn't want to whipe up old blood off the shelves , and it'll take six hours okay dox them sox hours pay and give it to us.

Does anyone else think it's weird that we're still doing a 40 hour work week to make ends meet when we have all the modern conveniences that our ancestor's didn't have? It used to be that one guy would work a job and have a house and car with a wife and two kids. Now we have the man and wife both working 40 hours, no kids, no house, and sharing one car.

Crazy the world doesn't owe me nothing but i owe the world everything

Everyone else wants years of experience for an entry level job now

Well you guys have it a bit hard. In Europe i make about 25-30 grand per year ( it s considered a decent living). I live in my apartment , pay my bank , own my car ( ford fiesta - could afford a better car but i don t want to). I still manage to put about 1 grand aside each month. Now you got to understand i only have a highschool diploma. I started with 15 euros per DAY. Now i am doing better. Kept to what i do for the last 15 years. Learned a lot about my job , made myself hard to replace. Sometimes the palm of my hand bleeds but i keep going. Age taught me to use my brains more than muscles. When it s hard , just persevere. Don t spend money on things i don t need. I live by myself for … i don t even remember anymore. For me it was normal when i turned 18 to get a job. By the way , i m a sailor. I am gone more than 6 months per year away from home.

It’s always funny whenever online commentators talk down on people not wanting to work when they themselves don’t work.

My father worked like a dog for 50 years. His boss is super rich because of him. When he died he didn't have enough money save to pay for the coffin. So yeah, lazy is what people are...

Most of Gen Z is willing to work, but the conditions and pay are so much worse than before, that it doesn't seem worth it

Sorry, she doesn't know what a real day of hard work is! Period.

"Gen Z doesn't want to roll over to Corporate Feudalism" Fixed the title for you

1:00 I felt the same way as well and then I got hungry.

Asmon, you never got a Job mate. You lucked into extreme wealth by streaming yourself playing video games. I get that it turned into a job. But don't pretend like this is the same as working at some factory or office. You're not the regular dude. Your job is interacting with thousands of fans every day. You're surrounded by fellow streamers, you get to meet hot egirls and watch memes all day. You do what a lot of people who don't want to work want to do, only you stream it. You can't make millions of streaming and criticise others about not wanting to work. When in reality you probably would have done everything and anything to not have had work if you weren't a streamer. You're literally the absolute worst case scenario of a "I don't want to work" type person, but you really, really lucked out with the streaming popularity. Homie, your house is worse than those TLC hoarding shows, you've never washed or cleaned a thing in your life. I just don't think you have a right to tell anyone they should be working

I don't want to sound entitled but obviously nobody wants to work that much. Just as a human right I find it absurd the levels of work to money some people are making currently. I think capitalism can be good for a lot of things but this is certainly one of the major reasons so many people oppose it, companies get away with largely underpaying people and not giving them any free time. Also its much easier said than done to just "get another job" currently where many people struggle to even find one that they qualify for, most people who say just get another job are people like asmongold who do basically nothing all day and give job takes which they have no room to speak about.

I only got 1 life and time wont reverse. I wanna spend my precious time on this planet doing the things I love the most before I cant anymore. And working 8 to 5 every day, only to have roughly 3 hours of TRUE free-time where I can do whatever I want, that ain't a life I wanna live. I don't wanna waste 70% of my adult life slaving away at a company in order to save up money for my pension. I wanna live now, not when I'm at an age where simply being alive hurts. Only options would be to either be born into a rich family (already failed that skill check...), or make my job my passion in life, but that's easier said than done.

I dont blame them. Why work for corporations that are downsizing employees....and increased the remaining workers' workload....

Just a reminder that wages haven’t risen with inflation since the 1970s. That’s when everything stagnated and corporate execs found out they could give themselves million dollar bonuses if they stopped raising wages

I used to be one of those bitter assholes with the mentality of “well I had it rough so you should, too.” Now, I have an entirely new perspective. I couldn’t imagine being the age Gen Z is now (I’m a 42 year old Millennial) and trying to get my feet wet in the world. There’s no way. And spare me the crap of “minimum wage was never meant to be a long-term deal.” No, it wasn’t, but when many jobs in my area base their pay off of min wage then brag about how starting you out at $12-$15 an hour is amazing money, it’s fukin joke. I was barely getting by back in my early 20’s, where half my take home pay went to rent alone. I didn’t go out, never could afford fast food, milk and juice was a luxury I couldn’t afford, etc. Yeah it made me hustle and become the success I am today but I also caught some damn lucky breaks along the way. I had managers take massive gambles on me in jobs I had absolutely no experience in, I got lucky that I never had a major disaster such as a flood or medical emergency, etc. And I’ve done the multiple job thing, it’s not worth it. Humans were never meant to be this abused.

20:22 😂😂😂😂 Bro if I could buy a house for 130k I'd EASILY do that. A house here in Germany is starting at about 600k where I live lol

my parents gave me an eviction notice for my 19th birthday before i graduated from highschool and was working at a diner and a fast food restaurant. not everyone gets the chance to stay home. i didnt eat 2-3 days a week after i swapped to a "comfortable" office job paying the same amount.

I am a seafarer, and I have 2 months contracts at sea, working 80+ hours per week. No free days. Crying about 40 hours per week?! Ha!!!

Just FYI, in my state average wage for an oil rig driller is payed between 70-100k annually. Definitely nowhere close to 180k.

This is why, as a Gen Z, I’m done working retail. Stop getting useless fucking degrees (80-85% of degrees are a scam) I got some IT certificates and now I don’t have to work for shit ass retail companies now, now I can work for shit ass IT companies and get paid way better and have actual benefits.

Older millennial here. It's not just Gen Z: we're with you. The adulthood my generation was promised was stripped away from us years ago, and that became more and more apparent as I entered into my late 20s and then into my 30s. If my wife and I didn't have a hand-me-down house from her dead grandmother, there's no way we could afford a house. The entire system is broken and it's a fucking joke. Hearing other millennials and older generations gaslight everyone and pretend like things are vastly more fucked than they have been in years past is ridiculous to me. Yes, a lot of people hate their jobs, but it's a lot easier to stomach than reality when you're not living paycheck to paycheck. Over half of Americans report living paycheck to paycheck, and there really are people out here dumb enough to act like there's nothing wrong with that, and it's the American worker that's the problem. Get fucking real. Also, a 40 hour work week is sick. Give American workers a 32 hour work week with no reduction in pay. We deserve it, we need it.

Around 25:07 dude said its been way worse than this in the past which is true for certain recessions and definitely the depression, but we are also living in world now where this is the first generation to be poorer than their parents. There is something to said about that.

honestly. if you see your options as being "not working and not being able to afford anything" and "working and not being able to afford anything" why would someone want to work?

I’m a 30 year old truck driver and honestly, it’s chill AF. It doesn’t really feel like work… I’m just driving/chillin. I have a kitchen on-board, a bed, my ipad. Fuck corporate office jobs.

$190,000 in 1995 is $391,555.84 in 2024

I've been working 40-84hrs per week for 3 years while going to college. It sucks ass but hopefully I can get a office job after. On the bright side I've been able to save and learn practical skills in my job.

I'm a millennial but I don't blame any generator for not wanting to work. Minimum wage where I am is $7.25 an hour but you're supposed to afford a minimum of $700+ a month JUST for the single bedroom apartment? Why is it illegal for me to scam people but everyone else is out here scamming us?

Fuck it, i'm 34 and I totaly agree. Whats the fucking meaning of it?

one people in debt in rent: solo leveling two people in rent: co-op leveling three people buying house: group leveling

Modern society has failed. Thank God that I had no children.

40 hours of working on top of 2 hours of commute every single day, 1 hour of getting ready, 1 hour of preparing lunch for tomorrow. Literally no time to do anything other than working the whole week on top of the shit pay idk why people are acting like this isn't modern day slavery.

Starter home?? You guys have starter homes??

Asmongold you don't work. This isn't work.

Bro learning more about business from World of Warcraft then from your business degree IS THE MOST RELATEABLE THING IVE EVER HEARD.... i was mining, blacksmithing, jewelcrafting etc all while going to college and im telling you WOW taught me SO MUCH MORE LOL

Average home price in the USA is almost 500k. That dude at the end is so out of touch with reality its REMARKABLE for someone with internet access.

A point i want to make about the food argument is that, yes ordering from restaurants is dumb, but eating ramen and cheap garbage should not be the accepted answer. People should be able to afford nutritious, healthy food that they cook at home, which is deffinitely not the case.

I'm pretty sure every generation has had a similar sentiment.

A lot of people want to play the victim instead of putting in the hard work needed to succeed

I always found it a bit strange... Multi-million dollar streamers enjoying the fruits of their labor; never having to succumb to the 9-5, clowning on those who are facing hardships. Sure, you can say these streamers "work" longer and harder, but I just don't see it that way.

This comment section already tells me a lot about what plagues modern society. You already see a lot of people out of touch, who aren’t even that old, possibly in their 30s but they are still out of touch with the current generation because of how fast things are evolving. Society has become a full-on corporate dystopia where they currently call the shots including for major stuff inside the government (lobbying), and nobody pays attention to it. That’s the real issue, corporations were never meant to gain such power over people because the government would step in and punish them if they did. The government no longer does that, in fact they even encourage it.

I'm a white male with close to 20 years customer service and sales experience and 10 years delivery experience. And yet, I can't get a job. I want to work, but I know McDonalds wont cut it for my rent and bills. This is just insane to me.

People out here struggling on 75k a year.......bro what about the bottom thats making 20-40k a year. You guys have no IDEA

i cant buy a house in germany and i get like 60k a year. a standard house costs like 500k here. And thats without repairment costs.