Working a 9 to 5 job was always a trade: your time and labor for milestone access. The milestones were: * Mid-20s: first car * Late 20s: house down payment * 30s: kids, family vacations * 40s-50s: peak earning, stability * 65: retirement with pension That was the social contract. Sell your best years to employers, receive predictable life progression in return. The contract is broken now. But people are still showing up to work like it's intact. Working a 9 to 5 job no longer delivers: * Home ownership (average first-time buyer now 41 years old) * Retirement at 65 (average worker forced out by health collapse at 62) * Pensions (replaced with 401ks you fund yourself during years you can barely afford rent) * Stability (layoffs, automation, outsourcing constant threats) * Vacation time (Americans don't use their PTO out of fear) * Healthcare that works (insurance denies everything despite costing $600+/month) You're upholding your end. Employers stopped upholding theirs. And the cruelest part: people work themselves into disability before reaching the retirement age they sacrificed everything to arrive at. Selling your health for 40 years to reach a finish line your body can't cross isn't a career path. It's a scam with a 401k. Younger generations refusing this aren't lazy. They're responding rationally to a system that stopped delivering promised outcomes. Link in bio when you're ready to stop participating in a broken contract. 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive
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I know there's a lot of talk about how Gen Z doesn't want to work a 9-5 and that's being blamed on them being lazy, but I really want people to look at it a little bit more logically and understand that they don't not like the 9-5 because they're lazy. They don't like the 9-5 because that they see that the 9-5 doesn't result in what they were told the 9-5 was going to result in. It doesn't create that trajectory of their life that has been promised by generations past. It doesn't create a life where you could take a vacation, you can buy a new car, you can purchase a home, you can have children. There is no linear progression of that 9-5 life that used to exist. The average age of a first-time home buyer in the United States has now risen to 40 years old. That's not normal. People used to be able to buy the house before they had the children. That's why there's a delay in marriage. There's a delay in having children in their relationship because economically that path that used to exist, that used to come as the benefit of the 9-5, it's gone. Why would you blame them for being lazy when all they are doing is recognizing that doing the 9-5 isn't going to have the benefits and payoff that every other past generation got from doing that kind of work? What do you want them to do? Do the work and then just never get the benefits or get the benefits two decades later than other people used to get the benefits? That's not fair. That's not lazy. It's logical. They're using logic as to why they are not going to spend their entire lives working in order to get to some retirement where that's where they can live it up and experience things and go on vacations and enjoy life. Well now retirement is like 76 years old and they're the ones taking care of their parents and they know that those parents already have health issues at 55 years old. So let alone getting to the retirement age, they know that it's looking real bleak and it's not going to pay off in the way that it did for past generations. So I don't know. For me, I'm a geriatric millennial. I look at them and I say smart, logical. That makes total sense. Why would they give up their life when the end result is so different than it used to be?
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