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On what do you base your claim that young people work harder?
by danellis 11y ago
On what do you base your claim that young people work harder?
- Jtsummers 11y agoThey're more likely to put in the suicidal levels of overtime that many companies want to see in their employees. This isn't to say that older employees (including myself, almost, I guess I'm middle-aged in this discussion) don't work hard. But we're more likely to clock out at 5 to go see a kid's recital or to commit to non-work related plans and actually follow through instead of being intimidated into staying until 7 or 9 or 11 at night. We've been there, done that, and now we want to do something other than forfeit our lives to work.
- logfromblammo 11y agoWorking harder is immaterial. I don't subscribe to the labor theory of value, so I don't care how much you sweat while digging trenches with a teaspoon, if someone else can do it with a cool, dry brow from the air-conditioned control cabin of a deluxe hydraulic excavator. As a statistical aggregate, the amount of useful, valuable, monetizable work done by a human for a fixed quantity of effort positively correlates with the number of hours they have performed the same work over their lifetime. Even in tabletop RPGs, a level 20 character can soundly stomp a level 1 character of the same class. Why do so many people seem to think that experience only counts in games? If young people do indeed work harder, it is probably because they have not yet learned how to work smarter, and they still have to compete with older workers. They can work harder, accept lower pay, work more hours, produce less work-product, or some combination. Anecdotally, I know for a fact that I don't work anywhere near as hard as I did when I was younger. I don't need to.
- VLM 11y ago"Why do so many people seem to think that experience only counts in games?" That would make management look bad, so ...