It may have been the case before that people thought hard work brought a better life, but now things have changed.

It may have been the case before that people thought hard work brought a better life, but now things have changed

Professor Bobby Duffy worked on the study, and said that millennials have ‘become much more sceptical about prioritising work as they’ve made their way through their career’.

  • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    18·
    19 hours ago

    Hard work for its own sake or for self-fulfilment is not a scam and can be very rewarding. Hard work as a means to escape systemic inequality and poverty cycles absolutely is.

    • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 hours ago

      Hard work for self fulfillment, yeah I agree with you. Hard work for the sake of hard work, uh,

      Hard not to feel that way about it.

      • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        10 hours ago

        I dunno, I think there’s an argument to be made that a life without some challenge, striving, and failure isn’t a well lived life, but I also absolutely think that societally mandated toil for 1/3 of one’s waking hours in order to survive is not the way to build a healthy relationship to that idea.