Are young people lazy?

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Are young people lazy?
Tweet Topic Started: Oct 7 2011, 07:08 PM (1,549 Views)
+ Green	Oct 7 2011, 07:08 PM Post #1
Flashy Thing! Posts: 5,436 Group: Legend Member #1,181 Joined: February 25, 2006 Gender Male Country United States What Browser do you use? Fire fox Favourite Manga Gantz	http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/reluctant-slackers-economy-leads-young-americans-put-adulthood-202742832.html This article brings up the reality that more and more young adults are living with their parents and are unemployed. Is this due to laziness? The condition of society (poor job market, inflation, recession, racism, sexism, education)? I personally believe that the problem is not due to laziness. I'm one of the 20 somethings (actually i'm right on the dot but whatever) that is unemployed and living with their parents. I have found jobs but the ones i have found would require so much time (transportation and actual work) that it would impede my schooling. To move out of my parents house I not only need a job but one that I can support myself with, which a college degree will help (lol) me acquire. Though in the article a woman and her boyfriend with Master's degrees (+1) can't even find a job. Am i lazy or is the current state of society progress in my life. Also, how important is it really to move out of your parents house? Why does a person who lives with their parents have to be considered lazy?
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Mc Esse	Oct 7 2011, 07:36 PM Post #2
Posts: 2,273 Group: Member Member #4,041 Joined: March 21, 2009 Favourite Anime Jersey Shore What Browser do you use? FF Favourite Manga Batman	Demgraphic, Sociologic and Economic issues contribute to this problem, it's not as simple as saying people are lazy. Kids are getting spoiled, and the market is obviously worse than it was before. 40-50+ years ago our parents were growing up, and I could speak for many of my friends when I tell you alot of families had just settled into North America, alot of Irish and Italians. Back then, these older generations were part of the working class, if they wanted food in the fridge they had to work for it. Fast forward to 2012, these old timers made a fortune, got an education, saved up, whatever. Now they're living in the suburbs in a big house and they're giving their kids everything, therefore the kids don't have to work! Remeber it was easier to save up and become an entrepeneur back then since the market allowed them to. You could have opened up a mom and pop store selling tools and you would not get eaten alive by the Home Depot giants or the Wal-Mart giants sweeping the country. Nowadays it's hard for newly arrivals to arrive, open up shop or find work to live the American dream, therefore the unemployment rate goes up, balancing the crime rate up. If you don't believe me find the relation between poverty and street crime, and you'll see an increase in Hispanic gangs on the street and a decrease in Italian or Irish American petty street crime. It's as much a Demographic trend as it is a Economic trend, I always thought the two went hand in hand anyways. You feel me? Edited by Mc Esse, Oct 7 2011, 07:38 PM.



Fulgore	Oct 7 2011, 08:09 PM Post #3
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+ Clearin	Oct 7 2011, 08:46 PM Post #4
Posts: 12,580 Group: Elite Member Member #6,372 Joined: June 18, 2011 Gender Not Specified Country United Kingdom	Well one reason for the high unemployment rate is due to the increase in population itself I guess. In 1959 the world population was 3 billion, it's now almost 7 billion, so yeah...



+ Green	Oct 8 2011, 01:26 AM Post #5
Flashy Thing! Posts: 5,436 Group: Legend Member #1,181 Joined: February 25, 2006 Gender Male Country United States What Browser do you use? Fire fox Favourite Manga Gantz	@Mc Esse: so your taking it from an immigrants point of view? Or anyone who may want got start a business. I agree with you, it sucks that people can't use open a business without having to worry about large chain stores ruining their business. @Teen GohanZ: Yea an increase in population combined with job cuts and jobs being moved to other countries is ruining our (U.S) economy. Businesses should be investing their money in the country that were built in (unless their goal is to help othe countries). Consumers can't continue to buy things if big companies are sucking up all the countries wealth.
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Rockman	Oct 8 2011, 01:47 AM Post #6
hoighty-toighty Posts: 11,070 Group: Guardian Member #48 Joined: December 17, 2004 Gender Male Country United States What Browser do you use? Firefox, when it isn't crashing.	Too much of a generalization to make a proper remark on it. I know some kids who amaze me.
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+ Dan	Oct 8 2011, 01:57 AM Post #7
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SirParagon	Oct 8 2011, 12:45 PM Post #8
Sparking! Posts: 808 Group: Duplicate Member #6,577 Joined: August 7, 2011 Favourite Anime Baccano, Mushi-shi, Excel Saga, NHK What Browser do you use? Chrome Favourite Manga Berserk	Young people lazy? Yes. Old people lazy? Yes. Humanity lazy? Yes. Everyone wants maximised gains for reduced effort. If the option to be lazy is viable then it's natural to take it. ...but for those of us who harbour bloated ambitions, it's a shame the global economy hit an iceberg about 3 years ago. The only practical way to get anywhere these days is to have relevant contacts, although that's almost always the case anyway. Edited by SirParagon, Oct 8 2011, 12:53 PM.
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+ Byakko	Oct 8 2011, 01:41 PM Post #9
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SirParagon	Oct 8 2011, 03:09 PM Post #10
Sparking! Posts: 808 Group: Duplicate Member #6,577 Joined: August 7, 2011 Favourite Anime Baccano, Mushi-shi, Excel Saga, NHK What Browser do you use? Chrome Favourite Manga Berserk	Byakko Oct 8 2011, 01:41 PM I don't think we're inherently lazy. Western Society as a whole, I think, has become used to having things become instant over the past two decades or so, we've become impatient, and when things take longer than we think they should, we can't be bothered with it. Why walk to the shop when you can drive there? Exactly The whole point of new technology is to minimise effort and maximise gain. Thus it always looks like the current day generations are lazier than the previous ones. One's level of patience is going to be determined by the best technology they have been exposed to in whatever context. There's not much to say the older generation wouldn't have turned out exactly the same given the same opportunities. Edited by SirParagon, Oct 8 2011, 03:18 PM.
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Xenonofied	Oct 10 2011, 05:53 AM Post #11
Posts: 33 Group: Member Member #6,839 Joined: October 6, 2011	I know I'm not lazy or at least I work extremely hard at my job and I did at school. However I do know people my age who have recently left Highschool and are simply doing nothing and coasting while living off their parents. But yes I've heard people complaining who are young about things that are no trouble at all like simply doing the 120 hours to get their P plate licensing (AUS law). They believe they should be able to lie about their driving hours just to be able to drive because they deserve to.
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DanielSan	Oct 10 2011, 08:01 PM Post #12
Posts: 1,536 Group: Donator Member #5,730 Joined: February 14, 2011	It is just the advance machines that makes it seem we are lazy. The more we progress the lazier we seem to get. In the 2000's everyone has a car. In the 1920's cars were just coming into the modern world. Back then houses were popular, and before that it was just walking. Also the econ is alot worse than it was before. I pretty much agree with Esse.



TheStormPow	Oct 12 2011, 03:41 PM Post #13
The Thing Chi-Chi Keeps in Her Drawer Posts: 170 Group: Member Member #6,268 Joined: May 27, 2011 Favourite Anime Nichijou What Browser do you use? Google Chrome	I would say it has more to do with the condition of society and the state of the economy. My cousin, for example, is 22, is married and has a one year old daughter. He just now moved out of his mother's house because he had been saving up to rent out an apartment for a while. He's been trying very hard, and I wouldn't call him lazy by any means. It's just that it's hard to make a living nowadays. My sister is 19 and is still living with my parents, however she's working a part time job so she can help pay our parents for her college. I'm not saying no one out there is lazy, but the status of everything that's going on is definitely a big contributor to people still living with their parents and being unemployed.
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