Ahh the classic "Gen (insert generation younger) is doing (thing) wrong" article... Most _people_ don't like their jobs. This isn't generational, this is just

Ahh the classic "Gen (insert generation younger) is doing (thing) wrong" article... Most _people_ don't like their jobs. This isn't generational, this is just how it is. When people have to work to survive and there are limited jobs out there, it's natural that people will complain about working and want to retire early. Gen Z is coming into the working world in an era very different and in many measures worse off than the working worlds Boomers or Millennials did. Housing is more expensive than ever, healthcare costs are continuously ballooning too. And the US minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. Companies are proud when they offer $15 an hour, which is now a starvation wage in most areas. Meanwhile, a lot of Gen Z is deciding if they're going to college and if so, how much debt they are willing to take on. 17 and 18-year-olds are deciding if they will take out potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans to go to school, another sector that has ballooned significantly over time. Maybe let's not blame the literal children here, and instead push for changes in our government. We need price caps for medicine and healthcare yesterday, we need more affordable housing, we need to increase the minimum wage, and we need to slow the ever-increasing costs of education. Finally, we need to consider that the 40-hour work week is arbitrary and has only existed since the '40s. Many companies have tried 4 day works weeks to much success and maybe, just maybe, as technology develops at increasingly faster rates around us people will start to realize that not everyone needs to work 40 hours a week to get their job done (this is already exceedingly common in office jobs) and then maybe it won't be so common for younger people to want to retire so early. A lot of jobs aren't really that bad, it's the amount of time per week that gets to people.