Some people claim the new generation doesn’t have a very strong work ethic. Is this an exaggeration? Or have public schools made our young adults soft?
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Oh, it’s quite true. The younguns they hire at my workplace are so lazy and coddled. This behavior was not tolerated by my generation (X).
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smartphones are the irresistible lure they can’t put down
no wonder so many things have gone automated
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That’s the thing though. At my workplace, we all must use smartphones to perform our tasks.
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Of course kids are lazier. I dont necessarily think that it is all just laziness. It is the job itself that is boring. Office jobs suck for the most part. Also many jobs require little to no skills. Life becomes groundhog day. Same shit over and over again, day in and day out. Takes the soul from a person. I think the biggest problem is in k-12 education where they do not teach skills or critical thought, but instead regurgitation of facts that do nothing for anyone. Kids arent even taught the simplest tool in business which is how to start a business. They don’t even teach that in business 101 in higher ed.
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You heard the saying about good times…
Attention span is a huge problem nowadays. Smartphones are often compared to drugs and even casino slot machines. There’s always instant gratification when you’re wondering what content you’ll get when you scroll for the next post. A lot of people get anxious if their phone is unchecked for even an hour.
With the dopamine rush people get from it, people end up wanting things now now now, with less effort to come with it. The stimulation you get from the digital world ends up numbing your brain and subconsciously, you start comparing it to the dullness and slowness of the real world, not wanting to engage with it as much.
The average screen time I heard is around 7 hours nowadays, so imagine all the conditioning and rewiring of the brain that’s going on, passively gaining experiences through a screen rather than tangible, real living with all your senses.
Gen Alpha is referred to as the iPad kids. So there’s another wave incoming… If enough people agree upon a new standard through collective trends and shared behavior, that becomes the new normal.
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It seems to me that the younger generation may be rightly leery of trying to prop up a system which is as unhealthy as the one which seems to exist in much of the world. The education system seems designed to engineer slaves rather than thinkers, and it seems doubtful to me that it’s getting any better. Plenty of the media seems toxic. Plenty of the psych meds prescribed to the younger set are toxic as well. And why are they prescribed psych meds? Because rather than actually have a decent fair society, the kids are abused and manipulated by a system which exploits them. It would be like much of the younger set are the canaries in the coal mine; and rather than heed their warnings and cries of distress, the system poisons them with big pharma. It looks to me as though perhaps the younger set have decided to refrain from slaving away more than is necessary for a system which lies to, abuses, and exploits them. I think they may be right.
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Social media has been designed to do more than focus our attention in our free time. Social media is increasingly being talked about in the context of addiction.
We are attached not only to phones, but also to the emotions that “likes” evoke.
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Yes, and it becomes difficult for people to get away from when we use it for every aspect of our lives. Our banking information is on there to access, school and work emails/ communication, our communication device with others, games, movies and everything else. It’s difficult to concentrate when all these applications are one swipe or click away from the Tiktok, Twitter or Youtube app.
In school, they rarely teach about the addicting psychological aspects of phones but encourage students to keep using it with changing times as a necessity.
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