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The difference between Gen Z and the boomer generation is that the Boomer generation had a wife at home doing all those things that the Gen Zs claim they don't have the time to do them.
Maybe really, really old Boomers. My mom was born in 1944 and she worked her whole life as did many mothers I know. Maybe it just depends on where you lived. We have always been right outside a city wives at home weren't a huge thing.
I am on the very tale end of Boomers and very few of my cohort were single income families.
The difference between Gen Z and the boomer generation is that the Boomer generation had a wife at home doing all those things that the Gen Zs claim they don't have the time to do them.
I'd say the percentage of married couples born after 1945 with only one income by choice is less than 10%. You really should learn something about what you post about, before posting.
My mom was born in 1942 and she worked, but she was divorced and had to. When I was growing up in the late 60's/70's most moms were at home and even when I entered the workforce in the early 80's there were women I knew that got married and did not work. However this was the exception and not the norm. We have a friend who's wife went back to work last year because she did not have enough quarters for Medicare. The wife is 62 and stopped working when she got married at 26.
Like I said, boots on the ground to keep the Cloud working. Weather disaster related curfews, I have my papers to be on the roads as an essential worker.
Lot's of EU countries would agree with her, and give much more manageable work loads.
Is there some nobility in working yourself ragged? Hey, I've done the 16 hour days 6 days a week, and it sucked.
Between commuting, working, sometimes mandatory shmoozing after work, your too tired to much else - I don't see a selling point to that.
I thought the goal was to make each generations life easier than the previous.
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The difference between Gen Z and the boomer generation is that the Boomer generation had a wife at home doing all those things that the Gen Zs claim they don't have the time to do them.
Hah! I'm a Boomer (born 1950) and I worked full-time and still took care of the house, yard, and pets, both as a single and married woman. Neither of my husbands would touch "yard work" with a ten foot rake.
There is a push among some Americans to establish the work week as 32 hours instead of the standard 40 hours.
As a retiree, I would prefer working people to work 50 instead of 40. It would be more convenient for me. More work means a higher GDP and higher GDP per capita.
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I think that in comparison to some European countries, the American worker is overworked.
Compared to Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan & China, the American worker is underworked.
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The encroachment of automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence into the workplace could make a shorter work week reasonable.
Perhaps. But that would fly in the face of the history of technical innovation - from the automatic knitting machine to the invention of the steel tipped plow to the invention of steam shovels to the invention of the light-weight one-man chainsaw to the invention of the IBM 360 series of mainframes to early personal computers to modern computers & networking to modern smartphones.
It is exceedingly difficult to forecast the future. It is hard enough to explain the past.
Is there some nobility in working yourself ragged? Hey, I've done the 16 hour days 6 days a week, and it sucked.
But notice that isn't what the young woman in the article is doing.
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I thought the goal was to make each generations life easier than the previous.
I thought the goal was to improve the standard of living, as measured by GDP, GDP per capita, and GDP per capita PPP (to mitigate the effects of currency fluctuations).
I worked my butt off so I could retire in my 40s. So all I can do is laugh at the horrible lifestyles most of these people will live. They do/did it to themselves so I DO NOT feel sorry in the least when they get old and have absolutely NOTHING and nobody. I have a few older friends that lived the rarely work lifestyle. It is not new it is just getting more prevalent. Now they get almost nothing from SS and live like animals, but hey they didn't contribute a darn thing in life and did as they pleased.
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More work means a higher GDP and higher GDP per capita.
