A little while ago, I watched Mike Rowe do an interview where he pondered with the host as to why young people are not really interested in working. And, honing the spirit of the Boomer generation before him, he got the answer so wrong.
Now, I like Mike Rowe and I think he’s right to encourage young people, especially men, to leave the college system and get a working job that might not be glamourous, but pays well and has tangible benefits. So this isn’t a post that’s meant to bash people like him, because unlike the Boomer generation itself, he is actually trying to help young people find their way.
But the fact that he couldn’t understand why so many young people are unwilling to work shows how out of touch people like him are. I’m sure he was opposed to student loan forgiveness for similar reasons.
Young people are unwilling to work because they simply do not wish to participate in a society that openly despises them. It’s that simple really.
Our society has, over the past couple of decades, taken everything from young people and pretty much set us all on a path of destruction that many of the perpetrators will never live long enough to see happen.
I think it all came to a head when the COVID lockdowns happened. You see before most people were willing to keep their jobs probably out of a sense of routine. Once that routine was upended, they realized that they were better off not flipping burgers for random asshole Boomers showing off their vaccine cards while double-masked from six feet away.
But it’s been building up before all that happened. The future for young people looks bleak right now. So bleak that many of them gave money to Jack Murphy to see him try and make God cry (spoiler alert: he didn’t). Or giving money to some THOT on OnlyFans because they’re screaming for some kind of validation or attention.
Meanwhile, all the young women are in their make-work administration jobs and suddenly realize when they work from home that their job was just a social group and that they didn’t do any actual work. And they’re all alone with nothing but massive student debts and a smelly litterbox.
And you wonder why so many young women color their hair, gain too much weight, and throw toddler temper tantrums on TikTok?
The fact is, our society, our culture, has basically failed young people. We have denied them God, told them that happiness is the ultimate form of morality, and inverted all the things that make them happy. Meanwhile, systemic corruption is allowed to thrive to intolerable levels and the people at the top are basically robbing all of us blind.
And asking for a second chance, forgiveness to the debt that they were all tricked into taking, they are told that they are greedy and ungrateful. It’s like the Gen-Xers and Boomers simply don’t realize that maybe, just maybe, if the Millennials didn’t have that debt, they might slowly gravitate to normalcy.
In short, young people aren’t working because they are simply unmotivated to do so.
And even if they do work, they’re told that they are “Quiet Quitting” because they do exactly what they are paid to do, rather than doing more, which would violate the 13th amendment.
One day I hope that the older generation will look to foster the younger generation and not hinder them.
Right now, they are doubling down on their foolishness.