A future-of-work expert said Gen Zers didn't have the "promise of stability" at work, so they're putting their personal lives and well-being first.

A future-of-work expert said Gen Zers didn’t have the “promise of stability” at work, so they’re putting their personal lives and well-being first.

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
    463·
    10 months ago

    I’m so fucking tired reading articles about boomers this, millenials that, zoomies this.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      54·
      10 months ago

      What you’re seeing is the result of decades of Reaganomics coming home to roost.

      Look up Hunter’ Thompson’s book about the “Hell’s Angels.” There’s a chapter on the economics of being a biker/hippie/artist circa 1970.

      A biker could work six months as a Union stevedore and earn enough to live on the road for two years, and a part time waitress could support herself and a musician boyfriend.