"Young People Just Don't Want to Work Anymore" 

Older people enjoyed working because they actually earned something for it.

I want to work, I don’t want to be a slave.

"Back in my day we understood the value of hard work!" "Yes, it's compensation, we're still waiting for it."

The real eye opener for me is my dad wanted to retire in his 60s but due to health issues, he died at 51. It got me thinking that it's pretty ridiculous to assume everything will go perfectly for decades.

Young people don’t want to work anymore is such a weird saying because I don’t remember anyone ever going “man I love to get up and spend 8 hours of my day at the office”

Honestly exactly how I feel. Great to hear I'm not the only one that thinks working forever just to _maybe_ retire at 60+ is utterly insane.

How do you expect gen z to take work seriously when employers don’t even take job postings seriously? Literally their first impression of business is being lied to on job posting boards.

remember folks, the system aint broken, it's working exactly as intended

I remember some one saying something. "The problem with the post covid era is that the people got a taste of freedom. And nothing is worse for a slave owner than their slaves to know what freedom is possible. They will do anything and everything to squash that idea from your mind."

I saw my family slave away for 50 years on a job. To nothing. It all was for nothing, they have no pension, no house, no future. No way in hell I’m going to slave away as well.

if a job would allow you to buy a car, house and sustain your wife and 2 kids ppl would work without complaining

My dad has been telling me throughout my teenage years that "if you want to have money and a prosperous life, never work for big companies, work for yourself. And always try to help your community; not because you feel obligated but because you want to."

This ain't just a gen Z issue. I'm a millennial and have been saying this for years. None of us get paid enough. Our parents could have a home. Had neighbors with motorcycle and toys. My dad's the one staying out late with his friends. I'm worried about work lol.

If I made 300k a year scrubbing toilets, I'd be happy every single day going to work. So when I find out a company will pay me at max $30k a year to clean not only toilets, but the entirety of multiple bathrooms and throw away all my hobbies, friendships, family time, and still expect me to put a smile on my face while denying me a promotion or a raise, I just give the fuck up.

46 year old here, and you’re 100% right. It’s a different world now, the old system is broken, by design, and will never let you advance. Find your own way. Young people, listen to this again and take it to heart. Short term sure, take the soul crushing job to get by, get your hands dirty and put in hard work, but have a plan to get out.

Im 24, my pops always emphasized going to college, getting a good job, and being successful. Happiness was never a part of the equation. He started working straight out of high school, and I've never seen him take a day off, even after his mother passed away. He died right after i turned 21. He was 57 and never even reached retirement. I saw that man work himself to death day in and day out at a job he hated and never got the chance to enjoy the fruits of his labor. After that, i promised myself that i would not live for others in the name of perceived success. I'm still working, but I'm taking acting classes and prepping for auditions while putting my energy into my passions. Even if i dont succeed, I hope that when I die, I can look back on my life without wondering what could have been.

Meanwhile past generations had a 9-5 that was so prosperous they had existential crisis over how successful they were.

I just don't want to sacrifice my body, I don't want to do something I hate. I do not want to waste my life, and regret it. I want to meet people, I want to travel and cook, and have fun. I want to lead a life I enjoy.

The problem isn’t that people don’t want to work it’s that people don’t want to work for less than what they’re worth

"Our parents cant give us the life they want to, because they dont have the freedom and time to do so" Bruh, that fucking broke my heart

My 20's are horrible... Retirement sounds like a fantasy. This is the shittest time to be a young person

Dreaming of freedom only at 65+ aint no fucking dream.

My brother died at the age of 29 in November. He would have been 30 in December and by all accounts he was so close to his dream job. But he overworked himself, didn't hydrate or take care of himself and he got a bloodclot in his leg that traveled to his lungs and he died, alone. Your dreams are important but not more important than your life. Don't work your life away.

People used to work because there was something to work toward. Now, the only reason we work is to try to stay away from poverty

I've been working since I was 17 while I've watched boomers screw around on the clock for years.

The last quarter of this video where you talk about seeing your parents sad, overworked and tired after following the script makes me sad because it's so real.

It astounds me how many older people will hear the younger generations saying they are working only for money and they will get offended.

Well, now I think I understand why people seem so... _obsessed_ with video games being "open world" these days. They sure as fuck aren't gonna see "freedom" in their lives anytime soon, so why not pay like $60-70 for a game that'll let you fuck around doing whatever for dozens, if not hundreds of hours, instead?

I've found that when people say "nobody wants to work anymore", what they really mean is "nobody wants to work in the ways I consider acceptable anymore." Shit changes, priorities shift, and I think that there are a lot of people these days that don't want to just be a cog in the machine where all their effort is expended making someone else rich while they're just... Alive. People want to strive for something more than rote survival, and that's all many of these 9-5 jobs offer them now. People want to work. But people also want meaningful work.

My ancestors were exiled Cossacks in bumduck Siberia. They probably worked 99% of their lives: building, farming, hunting, fishing, foraging, logging, cooking, tinkering. Thing is, the food they got was what they got, the things they built and maintained were theirs and for their kids. Sure, industrialization erased all of that and their village is now an empty swamp, but for generations it was the way to be. I work a job passing impractical luxury goods from A to B, so I can get a slip of paper with arbitrary value that only steadily yet randomly descends, to buy food of unknown origin that randomly disappears from sale, and to pay for a dwelling I dislike that can be taken from me at any moment without any justification. And I KNOW this won't last for generations, because I'm the last of my bloodline there is, and I have no kids, for I have nothing to leave for them but make-believe slips of paper. This is why I don't won't to work as hard as my ancestors did.

Did anybody ever want to work? I don't remember my parents actually being HAPPY about working.

This video made me depressed but also motivated idk how to explain it

I am a millennial and do not want to work. PLEASE YOUNG PEOPLE STAY ON THEIR NECKS! the status quo is insanity! I might not be here to benefit from your change but the future will be better because of it

"Everybody wants to be a king, but nobody wants to do king shit." That quote went actually hard

25 year old here. You speak for me as well. Our generation have been very observant on how work has sucked the time and happiness from the older people in our lives.

watching this, at work, halfway through a 10 hour night shift that saps the life out of me for an extra $2/h over base rate. im 23, i don't have a skill i can market easily as a machinist, and i have no plans or aspirations. your video is spot on. absolutely perfect. good points and good insights

As a 31 year old man I would rather spend $5,000 on a trip to Japan than put that money into my 401k for retirement. Why would I want to experience the world in my 70’s when I’m in my prime 30’s?

funny how inflation only applies to the price of things, and not the wages of the people that make those things.

I want to lie at my death bed knowing i had fun, not because i didn't achieve my goals. Thats a toxic way of living in this performance driven world.

33, worked as a musician in a touring band for 8 years, earned enough money to live for a few years and maybe embrace my dreams of being a successful recording artist. "The Band" I played in didnt't record any songs so it was just a living of past successes kinda thing. I gotta tell you the things I had to endure during the time in "The Band" were soul crushing. I heard so many evil things spoken to me, that for some time my self worth was non existent. Also sitting in the bus and just wasting precious hours of our life driving from venue to venue while having 5 albums of unreleased music playing inside my head. I asked myself many times "why am I sitting in this place that I hate, when I have enough money to just go there and do my shit!?" and... so I did. I gotta tell you it felt like a blessing. I'm finally free from this BS and from the people that mindf***ed me for the last few years. Now it's just ok, I'm earning less but I'm doing the things that I love. There is no better reward in life then to have an idea of your own and just sinking time into it. Everything about my life changed for the better. My advice here is, sometimes you have to endure it. There is no way to avoid it unfortunately. You may think that playing in "The Band" was my passion, but no - it was just my work. Very hard, thankless and soul crushing work. The thing that you have to remember is to always have something worth living for, like your passion, your family etc. When you have a chance to break, just do it! Believe in yourself and your ideas! Leave something behind. Something that the next generations can discover and use in their lives. Never waste a day on meaningless shit, you never know which day will be your last and I know people that died in their 40s-50s in the a span of a week. Cheers!

A lot of people say "Then who do you expect to make the things you want to buy!?" We could easily still produce all the things we need to with everyone working 30 or even 20 hours a week. A lot of jobs are BS filler jobs anyway that don't add any actual value, and a lot of things we make go almost immediately into landfills. If things were built to last instead of having "built in obsolescence" and if we weren't conditioned to be "consumers" who need constant new junk to feel good, .we wouldn't need to pump out junk the way we do. All the so called "advancements" we have made with technology aren't worth anything if they don't actually improve the quality of life and standard of living for the average person. That includes freeing up our time so we can actually HAVE time for family and friends, traveling and hobbies.

“How dare young people not want to do slave labor for $.70 a month???”

25 yo here. This video was a good reminder that I need to treat my time like every second truly matters.

I guarantee there’s been people who died 30 and have experienced more life then those who died at 60 and worked for retirement.

the same people who say "Young People Just Don't Want to Work Anymore" are the same people who think having money and investing is work while contributing shit nothing to society

Young people don’t wanna work because we’re all beginning to realize that the end goal of freedom is pretty hopeless

It's not even about being able to buy an expensive car and own a mansion. I just want to start a family and experience playing and creating stuff with my children

32 here. Wanted to work, desperately wanted to. But employers would ghost me constantly, and whenever I got hired, I would only last a month or two before getting fired. Never mattered how hard I worked; I wasn't perfect, so I got fired. So I stopped trying, because it didn't matter what I did.

It's the new gaslight. They pretend like they don't know what's really going on and simply label people lazy or "they don't want to work". I'm 42 and I get it. The system is a scam. Took me a couple LSD trips back in the 90's to realize that real fast. For me, having purpose is the main component in my happiness and productivity. Working some BS job for corpos is not the way.

So true Young people dont want to work them selves to death anymore they would rather be creative and take part in enjoyable experiences

"McDonald's got rid of the dollar menu" felt that one the most

I'm autistic with severe OCD intrustive thoughts. I grew up in the society where I had to hide my stuff within public school because my mom didn't want me to experience the segregation that many disabled kids face, and the social alienation as well as long term, unforeseeable legal issues which can arise from having that stuff on your record. I had to hide from bureaucratic systems, because it wasn't like I could even receive the accommodations I needed, since the budgets were stripped and they kept the kids who didn't fit in in glorified daycare. I did not even have access to freely be myself at home, because my dad was in deep self denial and tangled it with his anger at my mom and the divorce, while my stepdad financially entrapped my mom and emotionally abused us for 14 years. The OCD intrusive thoughts were the sprinkling on top of all of this, where even my own brain space wasn't safe for me, where my brain regularly threw into my consciousness horrific imagery that I don't dare utter to a single person on this earth, because I am worried that people won't understand that it's all intrusive. to cope with all of this, I leaned extra hard into my hyperfixations, with possible elements of disassociation. my teachers would be ashamed of my poor grades and good potential. they would tell me that I'm not applying myself, and that I just need to do that. I could never explain, because I had to hide from segregation, and while I didn't understand that at the time, I knew that there were very long term consequences that could potentially change my environment without any of my own say. I couldn't tell about my family life, because "my family life was actually pretty good comparatively because we weren't being beat or sexually exploited" (mom didn't know about stepdad's stepdad). and I guess we didn't count the revoking of food as abuse, or the refusal to allow me and my sibling to interact with each other. So I just had to learn to accept blame. yep, I'm just not applying myself. after a while, I became convinced anyways. never made higher than a C, I mostly made D's despite every attempt to make higher until I gave up and accepted mediocrity. fell into an abusive relationship by someone who is genuinely a good person but who could not cope with their own abusive family and I was the only one who accepted being a lightning rod. barely graduated highschool somehow, and went into construction since I was told to get into the trades because there's such good money there. ended up in several dead end jobs which exploited the ex-convicts and illegal immigrants who had almost no other opportunities. the labor market was oversaturated and a whole pile of shit. parents and folks would just dismiss when I'd try to bring up issues I was seeing as me just being lazy and not wanting to apply myself and work up the ranks, while I was being put through severe conditions, illegally deducted pay, unsafe exposure to airborne chemicals, and physical assault when I just tried to quietly wear my own mask without even requesting anyone else do it, becuase it was "scaring the contractors" when I'd wear the one good mask we had (forgot name, but it was the most effective and was in severe supply shortages). I had been considering my own mortality for basically as long as I could remember, had been practicing for months up to this point I went home and attempted sue's cider. I was continually screwed over, berated, belittled, and outright abused in jobs, told continually by my parent's generation to just work really hard and dismiss all of my concerns, all for a fucking 10 buck wage. my mom found and stopped me thankfully, but it was after that that she really started to listen. nobody else did, and told me I should have just known. Took a brief break during 2020, then got two jobs as a delivery driver and a bakery clerk. managed to get the first job that paid me decently, and it was $15 at an extremely depressing corporate firm which had quotas that only grew as the faces got more depressed and exhausted. my manager and I would pass each other as one of us would go break down in the quiet bathroom while the other was just coming back from their own breakdown. only lasted there for like 10 months. every step of this way, I've had people ask why I'm shutting down, why I just completely cease executive function for upwards of a week at a time every few months, and then try to sweep it under the rug and give me ths same toxic positivity, corpo buzzwords. or, they use me as a new bar in their pity case, to throw against someone else who is struggling, trying to rank traumas and our struggles in life into whatever little bar can have them dismiss the issues people are having and pretend like they're giving the "rough and tough pick me up" to someone else to dismiss their issues to get the cog back to working order. at no point during my working career was I ever in the prospect of being able to afford to live. not only was my literal pay reduced from the times I would completely shut down, I would also get on thin ice with my employment status, unless I happened to have a manager who was genuine and helped cover for me. quite frankly, I'm just waiting for everyone else to be done with this shit, and build our own provisional government such that it represents and work on resolving the issues in society facing all workers, with mechanisms and training to allow the workers to overthrow it if folks decide it becomes necessary. Our freedom is uniting as working classes. this system does not care about the safety of children, of the passions and needs of the workers, of the planetary ecology, of the different sectors of the working class. we will work until we die, and we'll only remember that we're the survivors of those who have died, from imperialism, from social stratification, from overwork, from stress, from misery. history has given us her cards, and she's gonna keep playing whether we play or not. which, why not? we have the capacity to connect the entire planet. you can just start a project, and have people join and contribute before you even know what hemisphere they live in.

I'm 40 and I crunched these numbers 20 years ago before everything went to shit. Everyone thought I was either stupid or crazy for saying that a 40hr week for 50 years to get only 4 million bucks was a shit deal. It was a shit deal then and it's a shit deal now. I've spent my entire life trying to do what I want to do, and getting punished by the system for it. Hopefully you Gen z's can change things, because they have needed to change for a few decades now.

The countless times I've heard older people say "youth is wasted on the young" comes to mind while listening to this video

The worst part is, we feel like we are a failure to society if we don’t. We can’t live if we don’t work. I feel like I’m leeching off my parents because I’m not ready to work. I’m young and still in college. Yet I’ve been wanting to do everything productive other than school/work. I clean because it makes me happy, I write because it makes me happy. I pick classes that make me happy. So why can’t we have work that makes us happy while also covering our basic needs?

it’s wild how retirement is 60+ , meanwhile our 20s and 30s the peak of life, stuck working 50+ hour weeks which ruins our life expectancy

My mom has worked her entire life. She has given up so much to raise me and my sibling. I see her come home exhausted everyday. She never lived her dream. And everyday it hits her how much time she has left and how what she wants probably will never be possible. She retired during the pandemic but had to pick up a different job. Fast forward to now and that place is shutting down and laying everyone off. I want to be free enough and wealthy enough in time to pay her back and let her have at least some time where she doesn't have to worry about everything. I hate that for her. I don't want that life either. Idk I'm hoping something will give in the next few years so the struggle doesn’t seem so impossible. That things will be more achievable. That we won't have to fight tooth and nail for just a little leg up. (Ps wonderful video. It really hit the nail on the head. I've been doing job hunting since I graduated college, and seeing my options just makes me feel sick. Anyway, keep it up! Wishing you success!)

I've yet to find someone else who can sum up our generation's general sentiments so well. For only being 23 you've got more insight and understanding than a lot of people who've lived thrice as long.

Listening to this while I work my 9 - 5 at 30 years old . I feel this in my soul. It isn't just the younger generation who's struggling with the will to want to work.

my dad focused so hard on raising me for a world that no longer existed.

"We don't know what will happen next" - this is exactly what happened to me. I am 25 years old and I am a software engineer. I graduated at 20 and started working hard. In my country, salaries are low - approximately 900 dollars/m at the beginning of an IT career, in 2 years I reached a salary of 1900 dollars per month, and started saving money. But then what happened happened - the war. As a result, the country closed the borders for men to leave, and every day I risk being mobilized into this meat grinder. Due to problems in the financial sector, my company lost a lot of money and cut salaries, foreign companies do not consider me as a candidate, because "why hire a man who will be mobilized any day". AI also added "confidence in tomorrow" As a result, I spent 2 years in an apartment, living paycheck to paycheck. And I just wanted to see the ocean when I grow up. But I don't know if I can...

Young people don't want to work? That's almost the full sentence; young people don't want to work for YOU.

My grandfather is still working in his seventies, having started at about fifteen. I wish I could give him all that time back it's so terrible that they worked him to the bone. He's told me numerous times about how he's so tired of it all, I wish we were allowed to enjoy life.

I remember when my parents, aunts and uncles were my age... I'm in my mid 20's with kids. They had a mortgage, owned vehicles, took weekend trips, could eat well, afford extras, just work honestly and make a life. I'm finally the same age, in the same situation and am broke AF. I'm poor and I have not a single thing any of my elders did, other than the children. (And debt, but the difference is that I can barely afford to pay it)

All ive ever been taught is work, so you can buy a car, buy a house. But i feel nothing for it. Im not happy and im not even angry anymore. I dont have a passion and i dont have a dream. I dont have a proper reason to live beyond its what most people do. Ive tried doing art as a hobby, ive tried taking classes to do autobody work, ive tried getting into welding programs, ive tried going straight into work and be happy working. All of it has failed or driven me into a bad bad place. I just wanted a reason to believe its worth being alive

This is why I seriously believe that we must move to a 4 day work week globally, instead of this current BS standard of 5 days 40h/week, because unfortunately most of us won't be able to become our own bosses, however with the 4 day work week at least we get more of our time/freedom back and won't be as drained or depressed.

There is no point in working, mental disorders are more rampant than ever. Everything keeps getting more expensive while the pay keeps decreasing and work hours increasing. Working 9-10h a day for 5-7 days a week, just aint it. Lets take a 9-5 job. You wake up at 5am to get ready to leave the house at 6am, be at work on 7-8am depending on transportation method and length of travel. Then your job endd at lets say 4-5pm, where you either push your body to its limit on a daily or sit in a bloody chair. Youre back home around 5-7pm. Oh what is that? You only have 2-4 hours left a day to do EVERYTHING else. Buy food, eat, shower, take care of finances. Then go to sleep and rinse and repeat. You cant even afford much of anything IN THE MIDDLE CLASS in the majority of first world countries. Healthy eating is already almost too expensive for those scraping by. Im gonna end up on the noose once i start working a job myself sooner or later. Im only 22 and i see no point in this world for so many reasons that it would take several paragraphs to list them all. Societal issues, personal issues, to put it very short. Thats not even to mention the very real possibility of ai removing a fat chunk of avialable jobs on the modern market for "efficiency/cost" reasons, making even more people unable to even get a properly paying job in the first place. Ignorance is bliss. Only those more simple minded (no offense tbh, i envy em) are able to live happy lives whilst being nothing more but slaves.

As a 27 year old man, i got a job at 16, and always worked. I worked my butt off at jobs, and it got me NOWHERE. I became tired of working hard just to barely survive, it isnt the work that wore me down, its the fact that it didnt get me ahead at all. Around when i was 24 i realized that i had given up on my dreams of becoming a father and owning a home

Im 25, i live in my car and work full time. It may seem like a bleak life but i know if i work hard i can achieve my dreams. My goal is to be a animator/vfx artist and travel the world. To anyone who sees this listen to your intuition and keep and open mind you can do anything!

Remember that trend that went like "I can finally retire and live out the rest of my days with the money I have saved...if I die by like Tuesday" which literally says everything that needs ti be said. I don't even wanna be rich man I just wanna be comfortable 😪

One way to ease this is by living in groups. Multi generationally or with a very solid group of found family. You must learn to respect and repair relationships. Learn compromise and how to share space. Toxic individualism only isolates us and builds the wealth of magnates.

Dude, I am literally willing to work for anything, but I keep getting ghosted by employers 😭😭

Just be careful, alot of younger people, including myself at one point, tend to equate the pursuit of freedom with not giving a crap about anyone else in their life.

We have no intrinsic motivators to work hard. Most jobs have always been like this, but previous generations were at least extrinsically motivated (payed well). In the absence of these things, why bother?

I'd also say, this is also why we're seeing a big resurgence in unions. It's much easier to face into the working world when the benefits are actually worthwhile. My union job has us working less than 40 hours a week, solidly above minimum wage at entry level, and minimum four weeks PTO excluding additional time for sick leave. They also provide options for group healthcare and retirement funds that are more affordable and higher quality than the options I had before. It's honestly so upsetting to realise we let them almost die off in so many industries because of a small number having a bad rep, and companies spreading misinformation

The most will say: "That's life."

You explained a whole generation’s mindset spot on I’m 25 I’ve been a CNA for 4 years and when I say working damn near 100 hours pretty damn often isn’t doing anything but making me depressed , burnt out and literally desperate to do something else because this is NOT the end all be all for me I’m tired of breaking my back to be unappreciated in one of the hardest fields known to man SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE cause there’s no way I’m living paycheck to paycheck taking care of folks grandparents who think we're lazy anyways!

My dad got laid off from his job around 1-2 years ago. My dad still hasn’t found a job, and I used to chalk it up to laziness but… I’ve seen him get ready for interviews multiple times, and I’ve asked him “how’d it go?” only for him to respond with “bad.” just as many times. Hell, even if he is “just being lazy” I can’t blame him because I would feel just as defeated. Even people that are willing to work lose their jobs through no fault of their own, and as a teenager I find that frustrating and terrifying beyond belief.

I'm 16, and shitting my pants halfway through the video. Thank you for giving a realistic perspective on work, and life

The problem is we have to work all day until we die to make barely any money and then all of that is taxed to no end.

I grew up in the 90s, back then we used to believe that even soul-less jobs contributed something to society, that you'd go through some nasty grinds as a rite of passage to prove yourself and earn your place at a higher paying job. But now we have the truth laid out in the open. Soul-less jobs don't contribute to society, they fill the pockets of a few individuals, and not even that, most of these corporations are actively making the world worse, and they'll never raise your salary if they can get away with it, in fact, they'll find ways to make your salary worth less.

Out of the 10 professions that are projected to be in most demand (and add about 2.5mil new positions), 5 are currently paying under 45k a year (and those comprise 60% of new jobs projected to be added). Think about it, ppl. They need us, but they want to devalue us.

"everyone wants to be a king but nobody wants to do king shit" Working ain't king shit. Owning stuff then exploiting and killing to maintain that ownership is king shit.

The late anthropologist David Graeber had a fantastic argument about the idea of "If we give people too much freedom, all they will do is make crappy art and be lazy all day": David pointed out that if freedom produces sub-par art or self-indulgent individuals (which is completely fine, in my opinion), the possibility exists that this freedom could create human beings full of self-directed energy. We don't even know what this would look like, because we demonize those who try, and everyone else is working too damn much! The argument that people will be lazy or just sit around all day is such a bad faith argument. Human beings have ALWAYS sought to improve their situations. The situations are just more complex for certain people in the world nowadays. Seeing how absolutely screwed we've become mentally with our current system, its worth a shot, right? David at least thought so.

they literally are not hiring people😂

The fact that property taxes exist means you will never retire. Even in a best case scenario where you have bought your home and paid off your mortgage - miss 1 year’s taxes to the king and see what happens.

I'm 30 and I have never wanted to work. I am pretty sure no one wants to work or else they wouldn't be getting paid to do it. If all of a sudden a job opened up that paid 100k a year that I could get right now and work 40 hours a week with benefits and retirement, I'd take it. But most jobs pay 30-50k a year and require 50+ hours a week.

Yes, because right now, no matter how hard i work, I will never be able to afford a house or a family.

"I used to care, but things have changed." Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan

I wanna riot. I don't want to be a slave for the rest of my life. But that's my only choice.

If I had enough money to retire, I’d still work. But I’d do like volunteer work to feel more fulfilled while knowing I can live comfortably at home.

Your intro showed a difference in thinking. You centered everything around you doing what you want to do for yourself. As a 42 year old, I was brought up to always think about others first. Everything I do is for my wife, my children, as a soldier it was for the people I thought I was helping, and now, as a teacher, it's for my students. My life's ambition has never been about what I want to experience. It's been about how I help make things better for humanity as a whole. When people say I'm a workaholic, I just see it as doing what I should be doing.

I love how we are so smart and advanced, but the best thing we could do with the most valuable resource is waste time by staying almost a 3rd or more of our life imprisoned by taxes and jobs.

Im 36 and i agree. We have the deck stacked against us in this economy. Gen Z even more so. I realized this late but I started my business over 2 years ago in a field i knew almost nothing about but i wanted to learn. I spent damn near all my free time learning on RU-vid, reading books and learning my market. I work more now than any job i ever had but I’m happier with what I do now than any job I’ve had. I strongly recommend working for yourself. See the fruits of your labor. Not just helping some CEO get richer. Its not easy but and theres always the possibility of failure but its worth the shot.

Saw my dad work his a** off to some rich guy who didn’t see the true value of his work. He worked on houses; repairs, plumbing, electrical… you name it. He could do it. He was also a very skilled craftsman hand-making electric guitars in what spare time he had. I saw him stress about work every day and how he felt unappreciated and underpaid for his worth… Now I’m grown up and I feel his pain. Working for a job that pays okay but I feel it’s a grind in the end and a paycheck. I don’t want to live in a society like this. This isn’t “living” this isn’t “the American dream” whatever that is anymore. If we are only valued by the work we put in and not by what we are capable of doing and here just to make a profit, I don’t want to be part of this kind of society. This honestly makes me depressed and makes life not worth while.

Fascinating. I'm three times your age, and I have never heard such an eloquent defense of fatalism in the service of entrepreneurship. It can be summed up as: "Everything worth anything costs money. Work for someone else is always terrible. The world simultaneously sucks and has stuff that is cool but costs money. Selfishness is absolutely necessary. Youth is the most awesome time and old people are just waiting for death. Wow. I'd love to see you revisit these issues in 40 years and see if you would amend what you said before.

The system needs to change. We are not made to work for big corporations who don’t give a shit about us just to survive day to day. In my opinion, unless you are extremely well off, it is just straight up not viable to move out of your parents place at 18. Im 22 and there are people my age that are working 2-3 jobs just to survive on their own. Utterly ridiculous.

One of my grand aunts (idk my grandpas siblings) once told me if you don’t have health you have nothing

Not to be disrespectful, but I do not think a large house and two cars will make anyone happy, quite the opposite: It will make you lonely. The suburban lifestyle that is presented as the desirable life goal in the US almost seems like it was designed to make people lonely, miserable and physically unwell. There is a lot of research on the topic but the gist of it is that humans are social creatures and any place where you live isolated behind a fence and only get around by car, never meeting anyone, are the kind of place that make you depressed, overweight and fearful of others. No amount of money will fix this.

Just started the video but this is something a much older coworker once told me People these days spent their lives watching their parents work their asses off to just barely get by which would kill any motivation for anyone