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To be called ”Long History” i think it should to extend beyond the current generation.

by quelsolaar 3y ago

shapefrog 3y ago
Kids these days.
- randomdata 3y ago
  ...are great! I employ a number of teenagers and they are absolutely wonderful. The future is bright. It's really just the late 20/early-to-mid 30-somethings who don't want to work. We have assumed it is because they are the "everyone gets a trophy" generation, but whatever it is there is a markable difference among the hires within that group as compared to those younger and older.
AnotherGoodName 3y ago
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. Socrates 400BC
afandian 3y ago
From the 'long' in the title I was expecing this to be more like 200 years not 20 years. There's good form for this kind of literature. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28169/what-is-the-oldest-authentic-example-of-people-complaining-about-modern-times-an https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28169/what-is-th...
sjducb 3y ago
I was expecting lots of outraged Victorians lamenting the decline of modern work ethics
cableshaft 3y ago
Scroll down slightly and someone else has posted an image with quotes that go back to the 1800s. EDIT: Not sure how to link the direct link to the reply, but you can see it on this article on Snopes too: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymo...
MattRix 3y ago
His Twitter version of this thread goes back to 1912, I think the Mastodon one just got cut off somehow? https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1682459194589433857?s=20 https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1682459194589433857?s=20
wredue 3y ago
2 Thessalonians 3:10 The odd suggestion that “nobody wants to work anymore” somehow just appeared this generation. It’s in the bible dude, and undoubtedly has sentiments dating back millennia.
parrellel 3y ago
I dunno, he goes back to 1940. That seems far enough back to make the point with newspaper clippings. Definitely more than a single generation.

To be called ”Long History” i think it should to extend beyond the current generation.

shapefrog 3y ago

Kids these days.

randomdata 3y ago
...are great! I employ a number of teenagers and they are absolutely wonderful. The future is bright. It's really just the late 20/early-to-mid 30-somethings who don't want to work. We have assumed it is because they are the "everyone gets a trophy" generation, but whatever it is there is a markable difference among the hires within that group as compared to those younger and older.

AnotherGoodName 3y ago

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. Socrates 400BC

afandian 3y ago

From the 'long' in the title I was expecing this to be more like 200 years not 20 years. There's good form for this kind of literature. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28169/what-is-the-oldest-authentic-example-of-people-complaining-about-modern-times-an https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28169/what-is-th...

sjducb 3y ago

I was expecting lots of outraged Victorians lamenting the decline of modern work ethics

cableshaft 3y ago

Scroll down slightly and someone else has posted an image with quotes that go back to the 1800s. EDIT: Not sure how to link the direct link to the reply, but you can see it on this article on Snopes too: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymo...

MattRix 3y ago

His Twitter version of this thread goes back to 1912, I think the Mastodon one just got cut off somehow? https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1682459194589433857?s=20 https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1682459194589433857?s=20

wredue 3y ago

2 Thessalonians 3:10 The odd suggestion that “nobody wants to work anymore” somehow just appeared this generation. It’s in the bible dude, and undoubtedly has sentiments dating back millennia.

parrellel 3y ago

I dunno, he goes back to 1940. That seems far enough back to make the point with newspaper clippings. Definitely more than a single generation.