30 Posts About The State Of The World That Explain Why “No One Wants To Work” (New Pics)

The coffee is a red herring. It's your frequent avocado toast that's wrecking you.

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While I accept not everyone have the same opportunities, this is not a productive mentality for those who wish to succeed financially. My parents didn't have much, I worked HARD to get my self through earning my BA in a high-paying field, and I worked relentlessly for a good few years after graduation to get ahead in my career. Today I am very well off, lots of savings and buying my first house. Most people don't have millionaire parents, and many successful people are entirely self made. The opposite of success isn't failure, it's excuses

There *are* rich people who made their money honestly; Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and ... er ... the rest of us have to stick by Micawber's Rule, build up a disaster fund, and pray we stay lucky enough never to need it all. This presents problems for people with illnesses, disabilities, or on zero hours contracts, however.

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How about the streaming services, and online purchases, and gadgets, and gas consumption, and fast food...and delivery...and all the other overpriced, very optional expenses? Did you take that $1200 and invest it? Use it to learn a new skill to find better employment? Or did you buy something frivolous, call it "self care" and call it a day? A large subset of humanity, works much harder, longer hours in more demanding jobs for an amount of money per year that's equivalent to what you make in a month, without cars, air conditioning, electricity, or even a toilet. Have some perspective.

Welcome to advanced unfettered capitalism

Thanks Reagan! Thanks capitalism! I hate it

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In 1978, I was 1 year out of high school. I worked at a bank as a teller and lived in a rented apartment on my own. The apartment was the whole 2nd floor of a 2 story house. My salary? $465.50 per month. PER MONTH! I have no idea how I did that, but I did.

After 15 years of rent control, I could not afford to be a new tenant for this exact same apartment!

That is SO sad.

I literally had a team building meeting yesterday and said that money was my #1 motivation factor. Manager nodded

People sell their labour for money, it's as simple as that.

Work is what ever you put effort into. Learning guitar? Work. Painting a picture? Work. Gardening? Work. Let's call it what it is, employment. I just think linking work to employment kinda ruins the word.

Or as I like to say to people at work, "there's a reason they have to pay us to be here." And I like my job.

Every small business owner that went under during/post pandemic. Because nobody would work for twelve dollars an hour can go f**k themselves. You never had a solvent business model and you never deserved your f*****g business. You just operate in an economic environment that allows unchecked exploitation. And take advantage. Good Republicans.

It's ALMOST as if a vast majority of businesses need actual workers or something 🤔

Give a person a duck they can eat for a day, teach a person to duck and they can avoid low flying objects the rest of their life

I've said this for years. The minimum wage should be local and tied to the cost of living in that area

Next idea: tie an age ceiling to hold political office to the retirement age.

Minimum wage should be a non-trivial percentage of the highest salary in the company (a good working start would be the CEO making 75x the lowest paid worker). It should include every worker in the company, so no getting around it by outsourcing janitorial and paying them peanuts.

I love this idea. Trouble is there’s probably a big overlap between employers and landlords 😕

99% of all jobs are ESSENTIAL! One of the most essential is the janitor. Without them cleaning up ALL workplaces, the operation will come to a disgustingly slimmy halt guaranteed! Know what position is NOT essential? Shareholder. Lazy freeloading sacks of useless 💩 the lot of them.

Y'all need to stop getting better jobs so we can still get a burger after dark.

see.. what people seem to have forgotten is that you START OUT as the bag boy and work your way up at the grocer or move on to something better somewhere else as you get older and need more .... These jobs that people want $20 an hour for are ENTRY LEVEL and should not be expected to support a family of 4.... should NOT.... that's what I mean by "Get a better job"... move on up so the next 19 yr old can flip those burgers... I started in the dishroom 35 years ago.

This is why I left hospitality. People are downright evil now 😮‍💨

Revolution, people.

Move to America for the roads of gold. Ha.... I was born here and stuck in the loop that barely has and exit...at least for now. Hoping in 5yrs, I will leave

they make it sound so great

Yet we'll all keep putting up with it because resistance is work...and we're all tired of working.

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There are 11 million unfilled, skilled labor positions available in the U.S. That number has been steadily rising for decades. They don't require formal education, just the ability to pass a skills test showing knowledge that can be obtained on youtube....once you manage that very low bar, these jobs START at $22/hr and top out at $100-$200K per year. It's not that they're aren't options available, it's that most people don't LIKE the options available, so they pretend that they don't have any. It may not be what anyone wants to hear, and it's not easy...but it's very, very simple.