Snowy36
2023-05-02 19:17:27
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You probably work in the automotive industry (-: But that industry will be moving abroad soon anyway – unfortunately. And in part, I can also understand your arguments. Carpe diem and all that.I also find it astonishing that anyone is surprised that loyalty toward employers is no longer unlimited, which brings me back to my question about age. This all sounds very much like grandpa telling war stories.
My generation and the younger ones are not stupid and have noticed that employer loyalty is no longer like it was in the days of grandparents or parents. My father was dismissed during one of the first mass layoffs in the banking sector. My mother was sorted out as a draftsman in her mid-50s because they didn’t want to invest in further training for her. Thanks to the public sector, I have been spared layoffs so far, but I have enough friends whose life plans and resumes are bumpy because of dismissals after takeovers or insolvencies of the company.
For whom should I slave away until 67? For the people and VW, pardon, correct that, the fatherland? We don’t have to repeat the mistakes. I am not a drone. The moral outrage over rejecting a completely unhealthy lifestyle model does not just fizzle out with me. Maybe it’s time for reflection instead of ranting about the youth.
And oh yes, just because AI wasn’t invented here doesn’t mean it can’t be used economically. Office didn’t come from Germany either and is probably familiar to 90% of people under 70.
But I still believe Germany wouldn’t have achieved its prosperity with this attitude. If everyone only worked as much as they absolutely have to, you can look at South Africa to see where that leads. There, if after 20 days you have enough money, you simply don’t go to work for the next 10 days, and the boss has to grill his own burgers and serve them to the guest for 10 days.
Are they happier there? Probably yes. But you don’t achieve prosperity in the capitalist sense that way. You don’t have to.
But I just don’t know if that’s clear to the current generation.