They're not paying a living wage, they expect you to be available when they want you and to go away when they don't, and they give you hideous workloads. They rob you of dignity, cheat you money, and deprive you of benefits. "No one wants to work anymore." Fucking bullshit.

I feel like naming generations has done some harm. This isn't like, a "Gen z" thing, it's a young people thing, it's a "people who are the future of humanity" problem. The future of humanity is one in which people cannot psychologically handle the life they're expected to/forced to lead. That is a lot more serious. It's not like, just some cultural issue with Gen Z like the debate about ankle socks

You run places with a skeleton crew and wonder why people are burnt out, where I work at we have people doing like 3 jobs at once and we're a retail store, sometimes I get home and I'm too dead to die.

What's causing an entire generation to feel this way?

lol you fucking serious?

Honestly, we need to all stop working until our leaders are interested in fixing wealth inequality.

We all waste at least 5/7ths of our lives turning this wheel that now only benefits a few thousand people at the top who then take the money they get from our work and use it to fuck children.

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

I'm burnt out trying to go the extra mile, I just don't care anymore.

I suppose that's fine, since theres less and less jobs every day

Millennials be like…

I think what's new(ish) is that working no longer improves your life. Go back a few decades and having a job meant you could save money to buy a house/car/vacation, you could go out and do things etc. Working meant quality of life, and it was worth it. Nowadays a large number of jobs don't provide that quality of life anymore. You can work full time and still struggle to afford the basics of living, forget any quality of life expenditures, and it no longer seems worth it.

That's been my personal experience. I'm in my mid-40s and I've had a lot of different jobs, and for most of my life I was a great employee. Always going the extra mile, always putting in extra hours when needed, because my job made my life visibly better. But right now, I'm making the most money I've ever made and I'm the poorest I've ever felt. I have a great employer and I'm doing a job I enjoy, but no matter how hard I try I just can't find that extra enthusiasm anymore. I have a hard time just doing the bare minimum. It's not by choice, every day I tell myself I'm going to try harder than yesterday, but I just can't find it. And I think it's because I no longer feel like I'm working towards anything. Things aren't good, and I don't see them getting better, and it's destroyed my motivation.

Just wait until they are Gen X age. Decades of this beating, still no real political power, and it seems to be getting worse rather than better. I can't wait to lose my job to an AI that can't actually do what I do, so that I can starve to death like some pathetic Dostoevsky character.