1st May 2024, 3:57 PM
This has next to nothing to do with this specific generation. If you look back at old newspapers, you'll see stuff like this printed at nearly every time in history. "Kids these days" or "back in my day" is a trope for a reason. This article doesn't offend me because I understand that they just have a low journalistic standard and are printing what is going to sell. It is supply and demand.
I see it as a means of control and scapegoating. People in power have an interest in making sure that the working class doesn't turn on them, so they are constantly offering alternatives for your problems. If they can get the working class to split and feud with itself, they don't have to worry as much about them organizing and they can take more advantage of them.
They want us clashing in generational divides, political divides, worried about immigrants and other countries. They want us worried about gay people, trans people, Mexican people and black people, China and Russia.
And so articles like this get made. To either plant the idea or to continue to reinforce the idea. "Young people don't deserve more pay or better benefits because they aren't good hard workers." "You didn't have all of these benefits back when you were young, so why should kids today get them?". If people in power can convince older generations that young workers today are undeserving of labor changes like higher pay and better benefits, then things are less likely to change and that is good for people in power.
I see it as a means of control and scapegoating. People in power have an interest in making sure that the working class doesn't turn on them, so they are constantly offering alternatives for your problems. If they can get the working class to split and feud with itself, they don't have to worry as much about them organizing and they can take more advantage of them.
They want us clashing in generational divides, political divides, worried about immigrants and other countries. They want us worried about gay people, trans people, Mexican people and black people, China and Russia.
And so articles like this get made. To either plant the idea or to continue to reinforce the idea. "Young people don't deserve more pay or better benefits because they aren't good hard workers." "You didn't have all of these benefits back when you were young, so why should kids today get them?". If people in power can convince older generations that young workers today are undeserving of labor changes like higher pay and better benefits, then things are less likely to change and that is good for people in power.
