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Let me shoot back with another cultural phenomenon: there's been article upon article over the past couple of years especially about how young people just plain

Let me shoot back with another cultural phenomenon: there's been article upon article over the past couple of years especially about how young people just plain have it rougher than their parents did starting out. Suppose this is true. Isn't it then individually rational to pursue some strategy other than working as hard as possible?

smeej 2y ago
No. And no, to the extent that I can't even figure out how you're thinking it might be? "It's harder now, so I shouldn't try" is a complete non sequitur. If it's harder now, we have to work harder, not less hard. The only way I can come up with to try to bring rationality into your framing requires adding some other premise, like, "and I don't want the things previous generations had," but that's a giant change to the way you framed it.