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’.

  • Etterra@discuss.online
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    23 hours ago

    It has, but only in very limited and specific circumstances, mostly historical. Homesteading isn’t exactly a profession anymore.

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      23 hours ago

      Mm, not quite. Homesteading in the early US, for example, was an insidious seeding scheme by the ruling class to simultaneously cull both the indigenous defenders and the “pioneer” (aka wishful peasant) population shipped in by the boat load. Canaries in a gold mine, if you will.🥲