This is the FCNB podcast network. A praissoday that we won't with bath and then we won't to say, oh we got it does. No one can take that. Owen gonna be okay, A press that we won't with pain, then we won't to say, oh we got it does. No one can take that oway don't, don't be okay. Happy New Year, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Just Listen to Yourself. I'm your host, Kira Davis, and this is a podcast where we take hot topics, hot button ideas, and we discuss the talking points on those issues, on those ideas, and we draw those talking points all the way out to their logical conclusion. Today, I want to address another gen Z controversy or subject this. These seem to be the things that are piquing my interests these days when I tune into social media and I look around, and so this is another example of that. And you guys know how I do it. I here, I don't just talk about things just to have content. I talk about things I'm interested in. So there's been a video going around over the last couple of weeks of a gen Z Walmart worker kind of complaining about having to work. I've addressed it on a just saying. Just saying is those little snippets you get sometimes throughout the week where I just do a two or three minute commentary. But I want to dig into it because I was really I've been going back and watching the video, and every time I watch it, I think of something different, and so I thought, well, maybe I just need to talk about this before we get started. Though some housekeeping. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast, please go ahead and do that. That helps me tremendously. And also, if you've never given me a rating or a review, go ahead and drop that there. Give me five stars. And a written review is always very helpful with the algorithm. So write something nice. I'm a fairly nice person. Even if you don't like the show, I'm sure you can come up with something nice to say about me. 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She's clearly frustrated, and as you listen to her, you're gonna have I believe, because if you're listening to this show, then we're probably very much alike in how we view the world in many ways. And this is the reaction I had. So I believe you're gonna your instinct is gonna be to roll your eyes at her and maybe even be frustrated or angry. And that's what mine is, and some of my responses to her are frustrated and angry, and you'll hear those coming up. But here's what I want you to do as you listen to her, I want I want you to really try to hear what she's saying. So dig in through, dig through the entitlement, because there is a lot of entitlement in this video. Dig through the entitlement and try to read or hear between the lines. Because as hard as we are, as hard as I am on gen Z, it's not fair to pretend that they have no problems and they're just complaining about nothing and we've done nothing but give them everything. That's not fair either. So as we break her down this video down, let's try to keep that in mind. And that's a bit of advice for myself too, as I go into breaking down this video. All right, here you go, take a listen about a minute and a half. I cannot stand how the news has been dogging gen Z and calling them lazy for no wanting to work a nine to five for the rest of their lives. Let me put it into perspective for everybody who's a little confused here, Okay, I work five days out of the week forty hours a week. Okay, I do not make enough to live on my own. I would not make enough to pay rent, water, electric and eat all by myself. I would not be capable of doing that. Twenty years ago, when you were getting started, you could live on your own. Twenty years ago, when you first started, you were able to do everything that I am now struggling to do. We had another perspective here. You've been working for twenty years. You have twenty years of working experience behind your belt. You have twenty years of experience in a career that has allowed you to gain raises, to get more money to profit you in an economy that you created. You could sit here and you can call gen Z lazy all you want, But I've been working my tail end off just to barely make it by, and respectfully, I don't want to do that for the rest of my life. I don't want to work my tail end off, wasting all of my life working just to barely be able to pay me bills. And that is what you created. Now, gen Z, we're just here getting started. You've been doing it for the last twenty years. You tell me how it got ruined. We can sit here and we can call gen Z lazy all you want, but you let the economy turn into what it did. You let it all run to hell, and now it's gen Z's fault because we don't want to work to fix your mistakes. All right, I'm already imagining some of you out there listening to that. She's very angry, she's very upset, she's very entitled, all of that, and and there's a lot going on here. So here's what I'm going to do. Now, now that you've heard that, I'm going to now replay the video bit by bit and I will stop for commentary so that you can hear my analysis of what's going on here. And I want to respond to her as well. So Lord, please give me grace and help me to see this young lady the way that you see her and to not be too hard on her, because I definitely was very annoyed watching this. But again, I'm gonna try to take my own advice and here between the lines, so let's start. Excuse me, hit my mic there. I'm a hand talker, y'all imagine me just I don't know how you imagine me, but like just sitting in this room by myself, just sort of sitting in one place. I'm an animated talker. It's part of how I imagine that you're here. I'm having this animated conversation. Anyways, it means that I hit my mic a lot, trying to be better about that. All right, let's go through this. Let's start. I cannot stand how the news has been dogging gen Z and calling them lazy for not wanting to work a nine to five for the rest of their lives. Okay, right there, let's stop there. That's not what's happening. Nobody thinks you're lazy because you don't want to work a nine to five for the rest of your life. Most of us don't want to work a nine to five for the rest of our lives. That seems like are actually a fairly normal attitude towards nine to five work. And I don't know anything about this, young lady, but some people are more suited to it. Right. I have friends who are accountants or secretaries, or they work for the government, or they do have nine to five jobs, and that's what they want. That's what they studied for, that's what they like. They like the predictability, they like go into the office every day, all the reasons you would like a nine to five I don't need to defend nine to five jobs here me. Nine to five is soul crushing. But I've done nine to five very often in my life because and this is a concept we're going to talk about as we move further into this podcast, because sometimes you have to do what you have to do. You got to do what you gotta do. You don't always get to hick the career or the work that fulfills you. Sometimes you do have to pay the light bill or the groceries. And so I don't think that she has a healthy perspective on this. But people are calling gen Z lazy, so that's fair. People are calling them lazy. As a gen X or my response when I see this video and I see her complaining about people calling her lazy, I think that's the response of a lazy person, right, because people who work hard generally don't go around lecturing people about how they're not lazy. They're too busy working and they're working so hard that when you have a hard work ethic, you're not trying. You're not running around trying to prove to people that you're not lazy. So I think she's not wrong in that assessment of how we assess gen Z. Well, let's continue. Let me put it in perspective for everybody who's a little confused here. Okay, I work five days out of the week, forty hours a week. Okay, I do not make enough to live on my own. I would not make enough to pay rent, water, electric and eat all by myself. Baby girl, I have news for you. Working forty hours a week, five days a week has never been enough for you to live on your own, no matter what era you live in. As a matter of fact, I think it's fair to say that our ancestors, your great great grandparents, my great grandparents, probably worked a hell of a lot more than forty hours a week for less than what you're making now. And that's what they had to do to make ends meet. And this is one of the shocking things about gen Z. This is one of the reasons why people like me would look at gen Z and say, we think you're lazy. Even my own son, who's a very hard worker, he's twenty one years old, I think we've raised him with a fairly good work ethic, especially considering his generation. Even he one day was complaining. I was telling my daughter, she's sixteen now, and I was like, oh, go up and get a job at the grocery store. The grocery store is oh was hiring. That's where my son worked. In fact, when the pandemic hit during his senior year of high school, he just went and got a full time job. He didn't sit around sweating school being out. He just went to work and he went to work at the grocery store. And I said, oh, go up there, and he said, oh no, Mom, you don't want her to work there. They worked their employees so hard they can't keep employees. I was like, oh really, He was like, yeah, sometimes you worked eight hours a day. Now, he had a full time job. He wasn't a part timer. That was a full time, eight hour day for him. And he was just taken aback by how much work that was. It doesn't feel normal for gen Z to have to labor for a long hour. I'm going to tell you why I think that is. And I think some of your parents out there might disagree with me and might get angry with me. But I hear this a lot from parents, and I think it's a mistake, I truly do. I hear a lot of parents say school is my kid's job, so I don't require them to have work outside of school, and I think that you are debilitating your child. I think that's how you end up with a girl like this. I understand school is important, but so is work ethic and knowing the value of work. And so school's not a job, right. They're not getting paid for it. They're studying, they're being educated. Education is the base level. It's the most basic level of what we have to do to succeed in this society. So when you say my kid's job is school, to me, I hear you saying I own the bar is very low. I only expect them to do this one thing. What happens is they get out and a lot of college professors, you're gonna recognize this person that I'm describing. They get out, they get to college, A lot of them, the ones that do, they get to college and they're overwhelmed because college requires you to multitask. And then they leave college and then they go into the workforce and they think, well, my classes were three hours, I studied for four even Let's say you were a really great student in school, I studied for four hours a night in high school, I did all that work. Now, an eight hour workday to them looks weird because you've been telling them their whole lives that work is sitting in their room and studying for three four five hours, which is not the same as going to a job and standing up and doing work that you don't want to do, and getting treated like crap by your retail customers and having to answer to a boss. These are all skills everyone needs to learn. And if you don't let your child learn that when they're in the safe confines of your home, right where they're provided for another ways, they don't need to feel pressure to pay their bills, they don't need to feel the pressure to keep the lights on. They're just learning this is another part of their education. If you don't let them do that, if you don't help them learn that when they're with you in the home, they're gonna end up like this girl five days a week, baby girl. There are people out there who works gen xers who work seven days a week. I know that there's this attitude out there that if you're rich, you're sitting around that Elon Musk is sort of just eating bond bonds and enjoying as well. They're all of these wealthy billionaires. That's why we pay your for sure, that they're just sort of enjoying life and not doing anything. No, no, these people work all the time. They're never not working. It's not like someone inherited money. Oftentimes, people who her money are still working because they have to work in the family business, whatever that is. Look at the Royal family, the British Royal family. They're rich and of course they have this elite status, but everybody in that family works. It's not the kind of work me and you do. Frankly, I think it's worse to be forced to go out and socialize with people every day and go to every single event in your country and smile and shake hands. Yeah, it's got to be exhausting, but that's the job, right. So even they're not just sitting around enjoying life, they're working too. So this idea that five days a week, forty hours a week is supposed to be something that sustains you, I don't know where that comes from. That's a lie. I think it comes from you parents who are telling your kids when they're growing up both schools. Your only job, That's what I want you to worry about. That's my opinion. She's also working at Walmart, so I'm gonna imagine he's making minimum wage or right around there. And I think she addresses us later on the video, so we'll probably dig into this a little bit more. But to reiterate, minimum wage isn't a job that's supposed to sustain you. Hot topics, the news of the day, in depth interviews, and a whole lot more. It's The Outlaws Radio Show. Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you get your podcasts today. That's out Laws, The Outlaws Radio Show, n FCB Podcasts. Let's continue. I would not be capable of doing that. Twenty years ago, when you were getting started, you could live on your own. Twenty years ago, when you first started, you were able to do everything that I am now struggling to do. Okay, again, this is a fail of educate, failure of education. That's absolutely not true. A twenty years ago, which isn't that long ago. Twenty years I just celebrated twenty five years of marriage. Twenty years ago, I wasn't living alone. And this is the other point I want to make about this. This is where I'm really going to dig in, because this is really what has been flowing around in my mind since the first time I saw this video. But okay, Kira, calm down. Start at the start. My thoughts are getting ahead of my tongue. We weren't, baby girl, We were not living alone. I graduated college in nineteen ninety six. I moved to Chicago. I lived in a two bedroom basement apartment on the North side of Chicago. I had six roommates, so seven people in a two bedroom apartment. I don't know where she lives. There's no indication in this video as to where she is. I don't know what part of the country she is in. But you, wherever you are. I want you to imagine what you pay for rent wherever you are, or what you might pay for rent in the location that you would prefer to live in. And I want you to ask yourself, could I afford to live there if I had six roommates. Every single person in this audience is going to say, yes, that's how we afforded life, baby Girl. It wasn't we split the costs. We were a community. We had this understanding you weren't going to go out there and make it alone. I knew very few people who lived on their own. A couple, a couple of people, but those were either people whose parents were paying for their apartments, or who had had some kind of windfall, or who had been unusually successful very early on in their lives. Even those people, most of those people had roommates. They were trying to cut costs. I don't know where she gets this idea that we were all just living on our own. I think part of the problem is what she hears when we say, oh, you're just living in your mom's basement. Here. That's what we use to insult lazy kids, right, Ah, you're just living in your mom's basement. You ever had to pay your own bills? I think what she's hearing you're supposed to be out there on your own. Yes, we think you should be, or I think you should be out there on your own. I'm not saying that you should be out there alone, just not depending on your parents. But when I could not depend on my parents, what I did is I went and found other people who were in my same position, and we pulled our resources. And here's the other thing, folks, that I want to get into that I think this is indicative of a larger societal problem that will be the end of Western culture, and that is that the other thing that happened that was happening more frequently twenty years ago, or my case, twenty five years ago, was more of us were getting married. I didn't go from being a single, independent woman with my own apartment and my own bag to married with a husband and a home. I went from basically seven roommates to one roommate. Marriage is healthy for a lot of reasons. And if you're if you have a healthy marriage, and I've talked about it ad nauseum on this podcast. If you want to know my feelings about that, just scroll through the episode list and find one that says marriage and pick one. Honestly, I end up talking about marriage a lot anyway, but just pick one. I've talked about it. I don't need to rehash all that. But what I'm saying is is even across up until recently, across the span of American history, marriage was the norm. Marriage was considered the next step to independence, not you living alone. And now we have this whole society where we tell kids. We tell kids like this girl, let's be fair to her. We tell her, don't get married, honey, you go out there and you sow your wild oats. It's not healthy to be locked down in a relationship early. Take all your vacations. God, look on Instagram. Look at the great life these people are having. They're se free, they're traveling, they're experiencing life. They've got their custom ice cabinets and their freezers, and they've got perfect homes. And have all that first, and then go out there and find a partner in your thirties or my family try to tell me to wait until I was least they're at least thirty five to get married. Ladies, if you want to have a family, do not purposefully wait until thirty five to get married. That's ridiculous. Your child bearing years start at sixteen, your prime child bearing years. You can bear a child as soon as you men straight. I started at eleven, but your prime child bearing years are something like fifteen or sixteen to twenty five. Well, so don't take that advice. But that's what we're telling this ye, this young lady to be fair supposed to go out and have all this fabulous stuff and live this fabulous life and have all these fabulous experiences and then get married. But marriage is the next step to middle class life. Then you have a partner to go through with. That's just statistical. Marriage is the next step to financial dependability of some sort. Just because you're married doesn't mean that you're financially stable there. But marriage is the fruition of this idea that it is partnership and community that helps us live. You're not supposed to be on your own, baby girl. And this is this is a failure of gen X. I'm gonna take this one on myself. Absolutely, this is a failure of gen X. We have not communicated to you because we're the leave We're the leave me alone generation, and that's how we expect you to live. I don't think that's fair because you weren't raised like us, you weren't latch key kids, you don't have the same skills that we had, and we're leaving you with the impression that you're supposed to be alone. Us saying leave me alone makes you feel like you're supposed to be alone. That's not fair, that's not right, and that's not how it is, and that's not how we lived. We mean, just leave us alone with your incessant opinions and whining, That's what we mean. But I see now that it comes off as you're supposed to be alone and you're not. You're not supposed to be alone. And none of us lived alone. Everyone I knew had roommates. And then marriage is the next step. But we're robbing, we're devaluing marriage, and we're robbing kids of this very vital puzzle piece to a life where you don't have to be constantly unhappy because you just feel like you're a hamster on the wheel. So what does she have to look forward to? You know what I mean? Sure we can look at her and say, well, she's untitled and she's complaining, but she doesn't even have the capacity to understand what community, marriage, family, how the part that all of those things play in you being comfortable and you learning how to support your needs in life. Let's continue. We had another perspective here. You've been working for twenty years. You have twenty years of working experience behind your belt. You have twenty years of experience in a career that has allowed you to gain raises to get more. Uh, well, I don't know where she thinks we started. I've had twenty plus years. First of all, again, this is another I think this is another failure of genets. We haven't properly communicated what it takes. I'm going back to you parents. The whole school is my kid's job. We've not communicated properly to our children what it takes to thrive and survive in the world without mom and dad holding their hands. So she has this idea that we've all been working in the same industry for twenty years. Is like that was That was the workforce of our parents and their parents. But that's not the workforce of gen X, baby girl. I'm on my fourth career, my husband's on his second. I know a lot of women and men my age who are on second, third, fourth careers. Most of us have more than one vocation going on at any time. I think another great term for gen X, besides to leave me alone generation, is the gig generation. We gig, we get it. We have a lot going on at any given time. Clearly we have not communicated that properly to you. Where do you think you start to get twenty years of experience on a job? You got to start somewhere. And by the way, the job that I had when I was your age, and just pretend you're twenty the job I had at twenty, it's not the job I have right now. You know what I was working at twenty. I had a job. I had several jobs at a job at a coffee shop. Then I worked at a tax attorney's office doing clerical work. And I was an actor a job but a not a paying job in Chicago in the late nineties early two thousands. But my point is that we had multiple things going on. You start somewhere, you start at Walmart, Honey, you're not going to end up there. You're not supposed to end up there. We don't want you to end up there. That's where you learn about yourself. That's where you learn how to work. That's where you learn how to labor. That's where you learn how to deal with other people, have a boss. That's where you learn your boundaries. I'll tell you what everybody should have to work in a kitchen. Kitchen works terrible, but some people get in there and they love it right, They just take to it. And my mom was a chef when I was growing up, and a cook a chef. You do it long enough, you get to call yourself a chef. And she took my cousin, Mike under her wing in one of the kitchens she worked, and she just worked during tourist seasons. Were from a depressed, economically depressed area, and so seasonal work is what you had, and so to get a seasonal job was very lucrative, right, that's what you wanted. And so she took my cousin under her wing. Who's my cousin, Mike, who's the same age as me. She took him into one of the kitchens she was working and had him washing dishes. And now he runs his own kitchen, he runs, he manages his own restaurant. Now. He just took to it. He loved it. Most of us will go into a kitchen to work, to wash dishes. That's what I did throughout high school. Oftentimes I would get cash when my mom's job was dishwashers. I'd go in there and wash dishes and come out with the tips from the night or whatever. If they were desperate for a dishwasher. You get in there and you're like, this is miserable. I don't want to be in this hot kitchen. I hate everyone who works in a kitchen. I hate customers, I hate hot water. You know, whatever it is. You learn your boundaries and you're like, I know, I don't want to do this, So what am I going to have to do to do the career that I want? Baby girl, That's what you're supposed to be learning right now. You're not supposed to step out of school, or step out of your parents' home, or step out of high school and step into a career. As a matter of fact, I'm very concerned for people who do that immediately. That's how you get trapped. What you're doing, honey, is the right thing. What you're doing is actually going to get you further than many of your peers who think they're going to step into a career, the career that they've planned on out of college. They get there and then realize it's not what I want. It's not what I want. And they didn't realize it earlier because they weren't working like you are, and they didn't have the experience to help them learn what their boundaries and tolerance levels were. So she sees what she's doing as a disadvantage, and I see it as an advantage. And that's the disconnect between gen Z and gen X. Gen Z thinks work is bad. Gen Z thinks work is a punishment, and gen X thinks work is a necessity and if you do it right, you can find the paths that give you some fulfilling work. But here's the other thing I want to tell you, gen Z, is this is a social media lie. It's a lie brought to you by the social media generation, people who have their careers on social media, making their lives look beautiful and look perfect. It's a lie that you're supposed to love your job. You don't have to love your job, honey, you really don't. And as a matter of fact, why don't you start asking around people listening to my voice, if you're in the gen Z generation, or if this is something you're just struggling with personally, ask around, ask how many people love their jobs? Most people don't. And even the people who are lucky enough to work in the jobs that they really want, you know, actors and singers. You look at those people and you're like, oh, they're doing nothing they always wanted to do. They have many days where they hate those jobs because a job is work and eventually work gets on your nerves. You don't have to love your job. It's okay, and artists really understand this. This is one thing I do love about the arts community. It's okay to work a regular job, quote a nine tough fiver so that you can support the job that gives you fulfillment. That is a thing that happens. I live in southern California. This is the entertainment capital of the world. Everyone I know almost is connected to the biz in some way. It's just the reality of life here. I know some pretty successful people in the industry. I have a friend who is a very successful movie and TV show producer, and he has produced some of the shows, some of your favorite shows. I'm not going to call him out because then he's identified with me, and you got to be careful about being identified as conservative in Hollywood. But there's a couple of Netflix shows that you watch that you love that he is a producer on. And you know what else he does. He's a real estate agent. He works on two of the most successful shows out there right now, and on when shows because shows filmed three months a year or whatever, you know, whatever their schedule is. He's got to support himself for the other nine. He's a realtor. So you're not entitled to love your job. If you get a job that you love, you're actually in the minority life. Most of life is actually work. This is also something we have not communicated properly to gen Z. That is our fault, gen X, because gen Z is us Millennials, aren't us millennials. I've talked about this before. They're the second They're the second families of the boomers, and so there's a lot of reasons why millennials are the way they are. Millennials are not the parents of gen Z. I think they're gen A. Is that Alpha? Is that what we're calling them? Zoomers and Alpha? I don't know. So gen Z really is on us gen X. We have failed in this. We have failed to help our children understand that most of life is work. Let's continue money to profit you in an economy that you created. We didn't create this economy. That's the Boomer's fault, right, But y'all, let's take a little bit of a responsibility here. We keep voting for it, don't we, right, I'm not I mean, I'm not voting for it, and I know that my friend and producer Darvio, who's listening to this show right now as he prepares to get it out too, does not vote for it. But the wholy reason I do this job is because so many other people do vote for it. So there are a lot of people in gen X voting for this horrible economy, and you people need to take responsibility. But I will not because I'm not one of those people. But she's not wrong here, even though it sounds harsh. You could sit here and you can call it gen Z lazy all you want, but I've been working my tail end off just to barely make it by it. Welcome to the real world, honey again, I don't even know many adults who aren't doing that right now or orever. I mean, I live in California. I don't know where she lives. I really don't. That might be helpful, because if she's in a place like here, she does have a lot to be angry about. Someone needs to explain. Maybe I'll do that. Someone needs to explain how your voting choices affect your pocketbook another failure of gen X, and respectfully, I don't want to do that for the rest of my life. Nobody wants to work for the rest of their lives. Nobody. You can save your respectfully, it doesn't matter. None of us want to work for the rest of our lives. We're not out here going I can't wait to work for the rest of my life. You work because that's what you do to get by in life. There isn't anywhere on earth where you don't work to get by. So again, and maybe another failure in our part, as gen X were to leave me alone. Generation we should be engaging these kids and letting them know, like, no, I know you don't want to work for the rest of your life, but what's given you the impression that you shouldn't. Let's go on. I don't want to work my tail end off, wasting all of my life working just to barely be able to pay my bill. This is what we call a moment of truth. So our instinct is gonna be to hear her say that and call her title you little brant. You're not just entitled to anything. You gotta work for it. But this, I think she's working through something here. It's coming out as angry right now, but I actually believe that in five or ten years, when she looks back on this, She's gonna look at this, I really do. I think if she had the temerity to make this video to me, it says she's thinking through it. It's coming off as angry, but she's thinking through it. I think she's gonna look back and she's gonna see that this is a moment where because we all have to have that moment. That's why you have this Walmart job, honey, right, That's why you send your kid to work at McDonald's at fifteen. That's why you make your kid have a babysitting job. That's why you make your kid earn an allowance or whatever you do to teach them the ethic of labor, of hard work, because that's how you figure this out. That's why I'm telling you, honey, that you're already five steps ahead of your peers, because your peers have not had the chance to have this revelation. They're spending hundreds and thousands of dollars on degrees that they're not going to use. They're going to get out and they're going to realize, I don't want to be a lawyer. Being a lawyer is a lot of paperwork and a lot of hours. You can't be a lawyer and work forty hours a week. M M. You can't be a lawyer to work eighty hours a week, not in the beginning. But what you're doing is discovering your boundaries. You know, now you're discovering I don't want to work this hard for the rest of my life just to make ends meet. You're in a wonderful place, Huns. It's perfect that you're doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing. This is what this is how we all figure out what we want to do, and now your next step is to figure out how to do it. How do you get to the place where you don't have to work these menial labor jobs all the time, where you don't have to work a nine to five. That's the next step in this. She's actually in a good place, even if she sounds like a brat. Right now, right, let's continue with this else and that is what you created, not gen Z. We're just here getting started. You. No, we didn't make it. The boomers did. But again that's fair on our part. But if you have a gen Z or I would I would ask you to sift through the episode list of this podcast and start playing it for them, and start playing episodes on government and work and minimum wage. I've got one on socialism, I've got one on rent control. We need to start explaining concepts for these kids so they understand why their lives are expensive. We're we don't want to make your lives more expensive. We don't want to make our lives more expensive, well, most of us. But there's a disconnect between how we're voting. She's right, people are voting for things that are making her life more expensive, but they're asking her to vote the same way, and she will most likely right, and she's not going to be able to make the connection between whose fault this economy is. So it's not terrible for her to feel upset about this. It's just misdirected because she's not been properly educated in how the economy and government works and how your votes work. You've been doing it for the last twenty years. You tell me how it got ruined. We say, honey, it takes a lot more than twenty years to get a country to the state that it's in now. But this is another issue that we have with gen Z. I think the problem, well, this is an issue with youth in general. I mean, we're all this way. It's supposed to be this way. This is how you take risks as a young person. When you get older, you have life experience behind you. You can see around the corners, you know all the consequences. Makes you more careful, which is a good thing in a lot of ways. But you take fewer risks, and sometimes that's a bad thing. And in you if you have the arrogance of thinking you're going to live forever and life's going to be great, and that's what allows you to take risks. So I don't begrudge it. It's absolutely, absolutely true. But there is this tendency among this generation to think history started the day they were born. Twenty years is a blink of an eye. She'll know that in twenty years, that's not when the economy started going down again. This is this is a failure of the education system. All right, let's continue. We're getting towards the end here here. We can call gen Z lazy all you want, but you let the economy turn into what it did. You let it all run to hell. And now it's gen Z's fault because we don't want to work to fix your mistakes. Baby, you do not have any of the skills that it takes to fix our mistakes. I can tell you that. But if you think we're asking you to work to fix our mistakes, no, you're not equipped to fix any mistakes in this country. You guys are missing a lot of essential skills to fix things. You can't even work for forty hours a week. So we definitely aren't expecting you to fix our mistakes. But we have made mistakes, and the biggest mistake we have made is letting you kids believe that you're supposed to step out of your comfortable life at home with mom and dad and step into a comfortable life, and that that's what we did. I don't think we're sharing enough with our with our kids about how we worked, how we came up, how we survived out of college. We weren't. We weren't out there with our own apartments. I just I don't know where anyone's getting this idea. It's just I think it's one of those social social media infections. We weren't again. Twenty one years old, I lived in a two bedroom apartment with six other people. I don't care what era you live in or what area, Yeah you live. You could live in Beverly Hills, you could live in Manhattan. I bet you could afford the rent if you had six roommates. The problem here gen Z, or at least the gen Z like the one in this video, is you don't want to be uncomfortable. That is what we have let you believe. That is our fault. We have let you believe that you're supposed to be comfortable, that you're supposed to feel comfort at every moment. You're not supposed to struggle for that light built or rent, and it is absolutely not true. These are essential things to moving forward in your life. You have to struggle. It's how you know what you want to do. It's how you know what you have to do. It's how you know what you won't do. These are essential experiences. We have robbed you gen Z a lot, in a lot of ways of these experiences trying to make your lives more comfortable. We haven't done you any favors. Again, Parents, I beg of you ask your child to work and while they're in school, at some point they should have some kind of job. It doesn't have to be full time, it doesn't have to be the full school year. Maybe it's just on summer breaks, maybe it's seasonal work. Whatever, your child should work. Their job. Only job should not be school, because that's not even real. That's not life, that's not even realistic. When you I don't care what job you think you're training your kid for. That job is not school. It ain't school. So what's your kids supposed to say when they get out of school and then they realize, oh my gosh, the workforce isn't it all like school? You need to be training them now so you don't end up like with a girl like this in this video. But I'm gonna end on this. I feel really hopeful for her. I think she's getting it, and that's my prayer for her. She doesn't understand she's actually five steps ahead of every one of her peers. She's doing it right, she's doing the right thing. She's making opportunities for herself, she's learning the value of struggle, and she's learning what she doesn't want to do. So now, honey, my advice to you is to go out and figure out how you can do what you want to do. No one's going to hand that to you. But this idea that we're not supposed to be working our whole lives. There's nothing anywhere in history, in the Bible, There's nothing anywhere except the fantasies of political philosophers. There is absolutely no example anywhere of people who haven't had to work their whole lives. In fact, work is so innate to the human condition that even Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden before the fall, right, so before they sinned, before they ate that apple and got kicked out and then had to work, they still had work. The Bible tells that Adam tended the garden and he cared for the animals. God test him with naming everything, and he was working. So another failure, and I'm gonna blame this on left wing gen x. I'm not taking responsibility for this, y'ao. Another failure of left wing gen x is instilling this idea in gen Z And this probably goes back to our education system that there is some sort of ideal pie in the sky like brass ring, that they're going to get to a place where they don't have to work. Even the people that they see on social media that they love, who they feel are making money and living glamorous lives. Those people are working. Do you know how much work it is to put out a video? This girl's just in her car, it's not produced or anything, and she's not editing or cutting away. It's just a confessional. But to do those stupid little videos, those reels that you flip through all day long on social media, that takes a lot of effort to do that every day. Takes a lot lot of effort to put content out every day when you don't want to work, when to miss one day of content means to lose subscribers and which means losing income. So even that is a job. Even that is work. It just looks like it's not. So you're looking at these people and you're thinking, oh, they're not working. No, they are. I've been on movie sets all those people that you see walking the red carpets, and they're so glamorous, and it's like, oh, I'm so jealous of these people they get to do this glamorous job. There is no crappier job than working on a movie set, even when you're the star, it's not That's why a lot of stars get to be diva ish. It's hard and mostly ugly, boring work. While you're there. It's the end product that draws artists to the vocation, hot topics, the news of the day in dip of views, and a whole lot more. It's The Outlaws Radio Show. Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you get your podcasts today, that's out Laws, The Outlaws Radio Show, n FCB Podcasts. I want to end this with some Bible versus because I want everyone to know that we're actually primed for work. That work is not bad. If you are working a job where you're being treated poorly or unfairly, yeah that's bad. Get out. But we live in a country where you have the freedom to go pursue other avenues and pursue other jobs. You wouldn't have that in other countries. Most other countries in the world. You don't. There are only there are very few Westernized countries in the world. Most other countries you are, Honey, you're not working forty hours a week at Walmart. You're working one hundred hours a week picking up plastic bottles and returning them for the deposit. Or you're raking through landfills so you can just find cast offs to survive. That's the reality of most of the world. But work is innate, work is natural, and there's absolutely no reason to believe that you're ever supposed to not be working. I think that sounds like a depressing idea to most people, but when you understand the human condition and human nature, we are not made to not work. What happens to people when they don't work. Think of in your own life. They become stagnant, they become people you don't like, They become stuck, They become leeches, right, they become drains on other people. And I'm not talking about people who can't work, but people who choose not to work. And our society is riddled with those because people because we keep making it easier for them not to do that. But if we don't work, it perverts us. Or I'll put it another way. Rather than put this on the poor end, let's put this on the wealthy end. Think of an example, either somebody you know or someone in media. Think of an example of a really really rich kid, a really rich silver spoon trust fund baby, and they don't work. They sort of just live off their mommy and daddy's inheritance and they oftentimes those are the worst people too write. You think of them and you think, God, that person's so arrogant or lazy or perverted. A lot of times, when you have access to anything that will satiate your pleasures, it's harder and harder to feel pleasure, and so you turn to more and more perverse pursuits. That's what happens to people who don't work. Be glad to work. Be glad you can work and use this honey as an opportunity. Don't saddle yourself with the idea that you're doomed to work at the moment Walmart your whole life, even walle't work at Walmart your whole life. By the way, I think you could make a comfortable living at that, because here's the other thing about your minimum wage job. You're not meant to stay there. It's a jumping off point. Turning fifty in July, I do not have a minimum wage job. Well, I should take that back. Once you average all of I I'm an independent contractor, so once you average out the amount of time I spend working versus what I bring in, it probably is minimum wage. But you see my point. I'm not working at McDonald's, right. My husband did work as a server. All through college, he was a waiter. Is not a waiter at fifty two, he's not a waiter anymore. It was a starting point. That's where you. So if you worked at Walmart and you worked there for five years, if you're still making minimum wage, then you're not a very good worker. You should go somewhere else. But typically what will happen is if you decide to work at Walmart your whole life, you're going to start getting promoted end up. But as a manager of a Walmart, I don't think people understand that retail managers make quite a bit of money, and so do restaurant managers. It's actually really good work. But you gotta work, and you got to work through the crap of retail. Well, let's see what the Bible has to say about work. Genesis two fifteen. The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it right from the beginning. That's even before Adam messed up. God got him working. Even God worked, he worked, he rested on he had a day, he had the seventh day to rest because he was working. There is something inherently valuable about work. Even God works Genesis three seventeen, So this is post fall. So even pre fall, in Genesis, God gave Adam work. Post fall, God gives Adam more work. See if you can hear the difference. Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, you shall not eat of it. Cursed is the ground because of you in toil, you shall eat of it all the days of your life. So if I'm talking to this young lady in the video and I'm telling her what that means, what does that mean? It means we are The reason why you feel work is such a burden is because work is a burden. That's really the result of the fall. Before the fall, work was not a burden, work was a purpose. After the fall, we have to work. Really, that's more work. Work, really hard to find purpose in our work, and that's a result of sin. But that's a whole other podcast. And you don't have to if you don't want to go on on to this religious angle, that's fine with me. I think you can make a secular case for not working being a perverting force. In Ruth, the Book of Ruth, a great a wonderful story. Women especially should read this book. But Ruth two seven, she said, please let me glean and gather among the she's behind the reapers. So she came in and she has been on her feet from early this morning until now, without resting for even a moment. Thousands of years ago. And here is this woman who I got. Here's Ruth's story. She had a husband in a time and area where that's what a woman needed to be considered even sort of a person. And her husband died and she didn't have children, and she was alone, but even more so, her mother in law was alone. And so she took her mother in law as her own and said, I'm going to cry talking about the story, because it's still a beautiful story, a beautiful biblical story of faith and love. But she took her mother in law and she said, I will provide for you. Your people will be my people. And what does a single woman in the Middle East, thousands of years ago, where women don't have any rights, what does she do? She works, and she goes to work. She doesn't work five days a week, she doesn't work a forty hour week. She works all the time. And what happened was Eventually that effort was blessed. She fell. There was a man who fell in love and married her and took her under his wing, and her mother in law and the Lord provided for them because she worked, and someone else saw the value of what she was doing and rewarded it, and for her in her day and age, the reward was marriage and comfort. Again, I think there's let's just harken back to the beginning of this podcast when I talked about how we're devaluing marriage and how that's a huge part of financial security. You can't devalue marriage for these kids and then expect them to go out and do it out all on their own. That's not how any of it works. It's not how it worked for you. Just because you're bored in your marriage twenty twenty five, thirty years later later and thinking oh what if doesn't mean you should burden your kids with that. They need to get married. It's part of the process. Proverbs sixteen three A simple one. I love this one. Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established. So don't be angry about work, be grateful for work. And then if you're a believer like I am, then you be sure to thank God for that work, and then commit yourself to doing it. He will honor that. Forget about the capitalists. God is bigger than that. He'll honor that. Colossians three twenty three. Maybe I'll end it here because I've got a lot of But there's a lot about work in the Bible. The book of Ecclesiastes is the whole book about work. But let's end here, Colossus three twenty three. Whatever your task, put yourselves into it as done for the Lord and not for your masters. Ultimately, this is the deficit. We are leaving gen Z with the idea that they're supposed to be working for themselves or working for another person, instead of working for a higher ideal. When I got married, my husband was a teacher in the inner city, worked at a private Christian school, so it was a church school. It was the ministry really, so he got paid like two hundred dollars a week. We lived in the hood, so we didn't it wasn't huge but huge cost of living, but even still for two hundred dollars a week, and he had some other provisions that allowed him to live and work for that amount of money. But that being said, when we got engaged, my husband left that ministry. I wanted him to stay because I love I love kids, and I was very committed at that time also to just helping children in the community. I wanted him to stay. I said, well, we'll work it out. We've always been poor. I've always been poor, and we'll work it out. And he said, no, I want a family and I want to provide for that family. And so to provide for that family, I need financial security. So while I'm not a nine to fiber, while it's not my ambition to be a businessman, that's what I'm going to go into because that's what's going to provide for my family. He was working for a higher idea. We didn't have a family at that time. We didn't have children at that time. In fact, at that time, I thought I didn't want to be a mother. And still in his mind he was primed to think about working for the higher ideal. And now we're telling children that their higher ideal is themselves, find your own truth, self love, self care. Everything tells people to look inward. It's the opposite of what God tells us to do. He tells us to look outward to him, to his creation, to his community. Are called to serve others before we serve ourselves. That's another great thing that having a family does for you. It literally forces you to be in service of others. You don't get to put yourself first. It's a higher ideal and it makes work bearable. So to the girl in this video, I wish you the best. I think you're gonna be okay. Actually, I think you're starting to figure it out. Don't judge yourself too harshly, and don't judge yourself by the fakeness around you, but rather use this time to figure out what it is you want in life, and then you figure out how to get that, and if you need to lean on other people to get that, then that's okay. And if you need to have six roommates in a two bedroom apartment, that's okay. It's not forever, it's not forever. It's just a season in your life. And then the other thing that you should be delibered about is finding a good, healthy, dependable partner, life partner, and get married and bill life together, because that's gonna help to all Right, Well, let me know what you think. You can write to me at j l. T Y at ProtonMail dot com. J L. T Y at ProtonMail dot com and write to me tell me what you think about my analysis of this video. How do you feel about this girl? Did you change your mind after this podcast? Or are you a supporter or whatever? Let me know what you what you think one more time. Ja L. 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