However, a recent rant from a Walmart worker belonging to this generation has caused a significant shift in perspective for many. It seems that these young individuals might finally be starting to wise up.
Gen-Z will hopefully soon realize supporting and advocating for Biden was a bad idea.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 10, 2024
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From Not The Bee:
I cannot stand how the news has been dogging Gen Z and calling them lazy for not wanting to work 9-5 for the rest of their lives. Let me put it in perspective for everyone who's a little confused here, all right?
I work five days out of the week, 40 hours a week. I do not make enough to live on my own. I would not make enough to pay rent, water, electric, and eat, all by myself. I would not be capable of doing that.
Twenty years ago, when you were getting started, you could live on your own. Twenty years ago when you first started, you were able to do everything that I am now struggling to do.
Let me add another perspective here. You've been working for 20 years. You have 20 years of working experiencing behind your belt. You have 20 years of experience in a career that has allowed you to gain raises, to get more money, to profit you in an economy that you created. You can sit here and call Gen Z lazy all you want, but I have been working my tail-end off just to barely make it by, and respectfully I don't want to do that for the rest of my life. I don't want to work my tail-end off, wasting all of my life working, just to barely be able to pay my bills.
And that is what you created. Not Gen Z. We're just here getting started. You've been doing it for the last 20 years. You tell me how it got ruined. We can sit here and we can call Gen Z lazy all you want. But you let the economy turn into what it did. You let it all run to hell. And now it's Gen Z's fault because we don't want to work to fix your mistakes.
It's great to see someone so young opening their eyes to what's happening in this country and speaking out so more can really start questioning why things are the way they are.
