one sign of the economic collapse that I've noticed: when meeting someone for the first time its rare they ask "what do you do for a living?" and I believe its cause the last 3 times I've asked, I've gotten "unemployed" "Uber Driver" and "OnlyFans content creator" as answers
oh yeah GM
GM!
It’s because people have been disincentivized from valuing hard work. And therefore they don’t have any pride in the work they do. In fact, people are the opposite, and proud of how little work they do.
Two generations now have been taught to avoid laborious tasks and increase their knowledge to be become more valuable than their labor. This has resulted in a surplus of knowledge and lack of labor, such that knowledge is less valuable than labor, which is the exact opposite of what their parents told them to expect.
Part of it was just everyone chasing the same carrot, but part of it was also a generation self centered and too lazy to pass their skills on and relying on someone else to do it for them.
The value of hard work is more then just a dollar; it’s self worth, independence, skills, individuality, and pride.
