My own personal idea to reduce burnout: democracy.
People never shut up about how we supposedly live in a free democratic society and spend 40+ hours in a fucking facist dictatorship.
Also if you don’t like your boss it should be legally permissible, even encouraged, to be able to hit them in the face once with a tire iron.
Don’t worry, GenZ will eventually get even more burnt out than us. They’re just not there yet. We all have it rough.
Why do you think genz will get more burnt out than us?
The frequency with which once-in-a-generation calamities are occurring.
Fuck, man. I’m at 3.5 and I ain’t even 40 yet.
As a college grad from the dot-com school, I feel ya.
Because everything that has made life worse for millennials, is not fixed, not even a little bit, and is not going to be fixed. It is going to keep getting worse and it is not clear people are even really trying to fix anything anymore because we are, as the article points out, burned out. There is almost nothing on the horizon that has much potential for making anything any better or easier for anybody, and the few things that do have that potential, like AI and automation, are very clearly (to me) going to be misused for exploiting humans in almost every possible way and making life harder not easier for the vast majority of the human population which likely includes everybody commenting here.
GenZ may instead get burned-out literally – from their homes, as humanity continues to work mindlessly towards a goal of creating enough heat to set the entire planet on fire, but maybe the rising oceans will put some of the fires out. Families and the fabric of society will continue to fray. Prices will keep rising. The wealth gap will continue expanding. Lawlessness and homelessness will become rampant. Democracy will continue to slide towards corporate tyranny and fascism, and peace begins to make way for conflict and war.
Time plus exponential decline.
hear hear, it’s not team sports, it’s everyone’s fucking life, we all share this place and this time
I’m not even sure if this is relevant. What is relevant though: we are all burned out and instead of asking who’s the most burned out we should probably fight the cause, because that’s the same for all generations: capitalism
Instead of comparing our burn outs we should be burning the people holding us captive.
Fuck this generation war bait.
Didn’t know being mentally unwell is a competition, but bring it on
Call forth the therapists and let them do battle for our honor
Millennials are more burned out because of having more time to have gotten burned out.
Compare people of same age. Get back to me about gen Z in 10 or 15 years and compare them to Millennails now.
Exactly. I’m a millennial and this is absolute bullshit. Gen Z has it way worse than we did at that age, and we already had it rough.
These generational differences simply do not exist. Societies don’t work that way that everybody in a cohort has the same experiences and biographies.
I live in California. The minimum wage is $15/hour. This is not enough to afford rent in California. The highest paying job I’ve ever had was $18/hour. Still not enough to afford rent in California.
I am lucky to still have my dad. When he goes, I’m probably not going to work ever again because what the fuck is the point of working 40-60 hours a week just to still be homeless?
You’ll have to leave California. That’s for sure.
Check out what an actual living wage is …
And then get more pissed off at the system and how min wage is basically a political talking point pulled out of their asses…
And that’s just to survive it’s not for excess… Just to stay out of poverty
Everyone is fuck this gen war bait and fuck fake journalist
Instead of the class war, fuck billionaires
We’re not competing. We’re all being oppressed by the wealthy. It’s time to unify against this shit
Gen-x here. I don’t know about anyone else but I’m fried goddamn crispy.
Gen X are only just behind millennials according to the trash article, and Gen Z not far behind them.
Just sensationalist generational-war crap to keep us from the class war… Standard stuff for Fortune.
“About 66% of millennials report moderate or high levels of burnout, according to a recent report from Aflac. Gen X trails closely behind with a reported burnout rate of 60%, and Gen Z follows, with a rate of 56%"
Millennial here. Fuck this shit - our enemy is the ultra rich and shitstains that abuse power. Pitching generations against eachother is counterproductive.
Breaking through these made up barriers is the best thing we can do in the US right now to fight those jackasses and their tyranny.
The kids aren’t alright—and neither are the millennials.
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iNbnineUCI
But yeah. This is just a “most burned out generation so far…” thing.
The most burned-out generation yet.
yeah. the energy and determination of youth has kept GenZ from burning out yet, but they went through covid during what should have been the peak years of their life.
on the other hand, us Millennials are cursed with remembering how things used to be better. sometimes I wish I didn’t.
Well Gen Z only hears and sees the beautified pink tinted version of history on how life used to be - not sure that’s any better
Divisive shitty title
Agreed. I hate the whole generational divide that keeps being pushed by media outlets. There are so many overlapping generations occurring concurrently, that it is essentially a completely meaningless title.
But which generation whines the most? I’m voting boomers
Who even cares anymore. They’re decrepit now and the real problem has always been the ruling class.
Give me 10 years they’ll catch up.
Please don’t make the mistakes we did.
Do not believe the promises of your employers-- slack off and claw back your time and energy as much as you possibly can.
TBH, I think people are now realising that. Covid was a big help in that regard. People are realising things like working from home was always a possibility etc.
