America needs carpenters and plumbers. Try telling that to Gen Z

Re:America needs carpenters and plumbers. Try telling that t... by SideQuark on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:37PM (#34264348)

>Sometimes quality of life is better spent not working when you can lean on family and friends Or your own small retirement fund.

And then when enough do, and the result becomes a lifetime of un/under-employment, then they want the retirements or lives of those before or around them, who do you think will pick up the slack?

Sure, quit and be a backpacker. Doing it a while is fun, probably even healthy, but a lifetime of it will not end well for many people. And generally if enough people do it, then society as a whole will have to pay for it.

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Re:America needs carpenters and plumbers. Try telling that t... by orwin on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:06PM (#34264823)

I mean, if enough enough refusing to enter the rat race makes society hurts, maybe a new way of social organization will be creted?

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Re:America needs carpenters and plumbers. Try telling that t... by hypertele-Xii on Thursday January 05, 2023 @04:08PM (#34266607)

> who do you think will pick up the slack?

Machines? Volunteers? Hobbyists? Artists? Researchers? Bored people?

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Re:America needs carpenters and plumbers. Try telling that t... by fleddr on Thursday January 05, 2023 @04:37PM (#34267054)

Pretty funny thing to say on HN, which consists of people in the industry of automating things.

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Re:America needs carpenters and plumbers. Try telling that t... by AngryData on Thursday January 05, 2023 @10:47PM (#34270716)

That seems like society's problem more than their own problem. Society failed to incentivize them to live a lifestyle that is best for society, and society will pay for it. If it gets bad enough these people won't roll over and die in a ditch, starving people become violent and will take by force what they aren't getting by what they deem is a fair exchange.

Humans aren't the ones changing, society is. And its failures are its own.

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Re:America needs carpenters and plumbers. Try telling that t... by csomar on Friday January 06, 2023 @11:13PM (#34285121)

They are the symptom the of a failing society not its' cause.

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