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.
Fuck this generation war bait.
I’m 42 and I’ve been burned out since 1983.
*counts on fingers*
Shit man
You’ve got quite a few fingers
The first eviction is the worst.
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.
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.
Everyone is fuck this gen war bait and fuck fake journalist
Instead of the class war, fuck billionaires
Don’t worry, GenZ will eventually get even more burnt out than us. They’re just not there yet. We all have it rough.
Instead of comparing our burn outs we should be burning the people holding us captive.
hear hear, it’s not team sports, it’s everyone’s fucking life, we all share this place and this time
Why do you think genz will get more burnt out than us?
Time plus exponential decline.
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.
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
Ok, but let’s not be divisive among generations over a common enemy.
No war but class war.
I hold nothing but compassion and solidarity for those who follow.
I want things to be easier for them, not as hard or harder than they were for us.
Story:
Just had a really painful conversation with my Boomer in-laws. They refuse to see acknowledge how bad things are for us and blame us for our failure to thrive like they got to, after receiving a six-figure cash injection back in the 80s from their parents, which is all gone now with their frivolous spending.
In the US, 1950-1980 is the era of lowest wealth inequality in the countries history. The top tax rate reached 91% in that time period. It is currently around 37%. Us poors had it worse before then, and have it worse after then. They won a birth lottery. Source: Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the 21st Century’
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And now that it’s lower the billionaires are happy to pay their fair share and society is better off for it. /s
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Do you have a source for that? I found this source that is citing data from the congressional budget office. SOURCE (I followed the link and did confirm the numbers match). I made a quick plot so it was easier to see trends. Nothing stands out to me about 1983 - there’s a small dip and then a course correction back towards the upwards trajectory, but this data tells us nothin about wealth inequality. We can’t use total values because of inflation and such , probably have to use revenue as a %GDP or something but I’m too lazy too keep searching at the moment :) My immediate thought looking at the plot is this: If the total tax rev kept going up, and the top tax rate was cut, then the increased tax burden must have shifted to the poorer classes; I’d have to verify but it seems like a logical conclusion.
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It’s because discrete generations aren’t a real thing.
You summed it up best: same age give or take a few years. I’m an elder millennial and have more in common with the youngest gen X than with the youngest millennials.
Yup! I’m a millenial here and I’m not here to compete for the oppression Olympics.
The rich just gave themselves another tax break. I’m not here to fight my fellow people. I want to eat the rich!
Exactly. As a millenial, my goal is to be compassionate for the next generation — not to pull the “when I was your age” card on Gen Z and Alpha.
I mean if gen Z men are a big fascist majority, when does it start being a class war?
Doesn’t matter, no war but class war.
The primary adjective/insult to focus on is them being a fascist; the moment you pull any other, non-related adjective into the insult, they give themselves permission to ignore you.
Fuck fascist assholes, fuck the upper class, no matter the demographic.
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.
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.
Turns out being part of a “sandwich” generation is not as tasty as the term implies.
This is a new term to me can you expand please?
It was in the article, it refers to a generation who is burdened with caring for both their parents/grandparents and their children.
Hey that’s me and I’m not a melenial z or boomer
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.
We’re not competing. We’re all being oppressed by the wealthy. It’s time to unify against this shit
