It may have been the case before that people thought hard work brought a better life, but now things have changed
Professor Bobby Duffy worked on the study, and said that millennials have ‘become much more sceptical about prioritising work as they’ve made their way through their career’.
I worked hard and my bosses noticed so I got rewarded with more work. I took pride in it at the time but eventually burned out hard and when I changed jobs they didn’t even do an exit interview with me. I’m embarrassed by how much of a sucker I was.
That matches my experience. I was in school when i learned that doing homework faster (we had a week to do it and i had it done in a day) doesn’t get you an advantage, it just means that the teacher decides that we can handle more homework.
Recent history has taught that lying, cheating, stealing and then bribing lawmakers is what leads to a better life. And a small loan of $35million from your dad.
The scam isn’t ‘hard work’
The scam is the ‘a job gives you(r life) purpose’ narrative.
Nope, times a thousand. Meaningful relationships, having realistic (but still challenging) goals, self-expression, responsibility for the well-being of others and engaging in meaningful initiatives, among many others, do.
Hard work for its own sake or for self-fulfilment is not a scam and can be very rewarding. Hard work as a means to escape systemic inequality and poverty cycles absolutely is.
The fact that the Hawk Tuah girl made bank on a crypto scam is a great example of why this is the case.
she can hire some else to spit on it now, instead of doing the dirty work herself
Someone actually just posted this to a German sub https://feddit.org/post/15034301
It says that 75% of billionaires have inherited their wealth
