{"id":3526,"date":"2024-01-10T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2024-01-10T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:57:26","slug":"i-have-some-sympathy-for-this-gen-z-complainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2024\/01\/10\/i-have-some-sympathy-for-this-gen-z-complainer\/","title":{"rendered":"I have some sympathy for this Gen Z complainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen this video in which a Gen Z worker complains about the unfairness of the current work environment. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gen-Z will hopefully soon realize supporting and advocating for Biden was a bad idea.<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B8uaJPOUxw\">pic.twitter.com\/B8uaJPOUxw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1744876943382905066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I think many conservatives react to this with some version of &#8220;quit complaining, work harder, and stop spending your money on $1000 phones.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I have a different reaction. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been devaluing labor for decades to (1) feed our appetite for cheap crap, and (2) increase corporate profits. <\/p>\n<p>Neither of those things are bad. Being able to buy things for less makes citizens more wealthy, and corporate profits fund 401(k) accounts, create jobs, increase the GDP, etc. <\/p>\n<p>But there is a cost, which is what this young lady is talking about. In order to have cheap things at Walmart, we can&#8217;t pay the Walmart workers very well. Or the people who work in the factories that make the stuff on the shelves. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not inclined to accept simple answers to this situation. Yes, we want more efficient production of goods. But we also want people to be able to get a job, get married, earn a living, raise a family, etc. And I think we&#8217;re failing at that, and it&#8217;s only going to get worse as Biden welcomes 482 billion new people into the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen this video in which a Gen Z worker complains about the unfairness of the current work environment. Gen-Z will hopefully soon realize supporting and advocating for Biden was a bad idea. pic.twitter.com\/B8uaJPOUxw &mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 10, 2024 I think many conservatives react to this with some version of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2024\/01\/10\/i-have-some-sympathy-for-this-gen-z-complainer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I have some sympathy for this Gen Z complainer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}