This young woman says that she quit her job and doesn’t want to work, then blames capitalism and “this economy” as the reasons why she can’t spend her life in pursuit of things she enjoys.
This is an entire generation of spoiled children who are upset that no one will pay them to sit around the house all day playing video games and smoking weed. Her dream is to be a Tik Tok star, because she sees that as the key to living a life of leisure. This is the reason why Democrats are slipping towards communism. The young people all think that communism means the government will take care of you while you sit around and do nothing, but they never make the leap to asking themselves where the government will get the food, iPhones, Internet service, and all of the material goods with which to care for them.
It reminds me of a couple of stories. One was where my sister’s daughter, then aged 14, had a conversation about economics with me. It started because my niece made the statement that people should get things that are necessary for free, because we all have a right to the necessities of life. She used feminine hygiene products as an example.
I told her that I wasn’t picking on her, but pointed out to her that, since no one was paying for tampons, there would be no money to pay the people who worked in the tampon factory, so why would anyone work there for free?
Her first reply was, “Wait! There is a tampon factory?”
I said, “Well just where do you think tampons come from? Is there a tampon tree somewhere?”
She replied, “Well, in that case, I suppose you could get women to work there and pay them with free tampons.”
I said, “What would that be worth? If everyone gets tampons for free anyway, so why would they want to work there to get the free tampons everyone else gets? How are the women working there going to eat, buy gas, or buy a house?”
She said, “That’s my point. Money is stupid. Why can’t everyone just trade and barter for stuff? Why should we all have to go to work just to be able to afford the things we need to live? The government can just print all of the money we need.” That child is now 17 years old, and will be graduating from high school this year. She still has very little work ethic and still no understanding of the hows and whys of money and earning a living.
Her older sister is even worse. At 25 years old, she and her boyfriend live at home with mommy, but is saying that she is an adult and doesn’t have to follow rules. She doesn’t have a drivers license and depends on her mother for rides to work, shopping, etc. She went to college for a year, but decided that was not what she wanted, so now works as a waitress and refuses to help with rent, food, or any other expenses or chores around the house. She expects mommy to cook, clean, and do her laundry for her. No surprise: she is a hard core left wing Democrat and dresses like a walking freak show. Her days off are spent smoking weed, as near as I can tell. My sister gave her an ultimatum that she had to move out by a certain date. That date was October 1, 2022.
She is still living there.
This entire generation has an immature, childish way of looking at the world. This is a large portion of the youth of today. They want socialism because they don’t want to do anything but party, and they are believing the line that communism means someone else works in the factory (if they even think about it long enough to realize there are factories), someone else grows and transports the food, and they get to smoke weed and play at a life of leisure all day. I don’t know how we can reach them. It seems to be a lost cause. Instead of working for a living, they are voting for a living. This is why they are pushing so hard for illegal immigration- they need their slave labor to do the work they aren’t willing to do. It’s been going on for a decade.
I sound like an old man bitching about “these kids today.” Time to go do something productive.
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ML Thomas · February 17, 2026 at 7:18 am
There is no substitute for proper parenting.
EN2 SS · February 17, 2026 at 8:55 am
I don’t know how we can reach them.
‘We’ can’t reach them, their enablers have to do that with some tough love. Sad that the enablers aren’t intelligent enough to do that, either. If America happens to survive through this crap, when the enablers die off maybe the children will finally grow up. Naw, we be done.
Himself · February 17, 2026 at 9:21 am
Sounds like your sister needed to establish some boundaries, rules, and limitations. 0 for 2? wow.
I see a lot of this these days. That generation has zero concept on how the world works. This is sort of a fourth turning thing, I suppose. All will pay for their moment of clarity.
When kids are in high school, you need to start the conversations about what they plan on doing with their life, and make it well known they are expected to leave the nest. My parents told me when I was a senior, you have three choices – Go away to college, Stay at home and go to college, or get a job and move out. Since the only AC in the house was in a kitchen addition and my parents room, we were well motivated to flee.
I did the same with my kids, although they learned early on how to make money and save for what they wanted. They all had goals, and wanted to get on with their lives. It’s probably genetic.
That said, I know more than one family where the kids are nearly 30 and still in the nest. That’s nuts. And no way in hell would a mooch boyfriend get to stay a single night, let alone move in. That was hard and fast rule since high school.
The only one in my family that had anything close was my brother, whose son was dragging his feet leaving after college. My bro ended up getting a job in another state, sold the house and moved. The kid was “Hey, what about me?” His answer was epic “What about you? I guess you need to find a place”
Boom Shakka Lakka Lakka · February 17, 2026 at 9:30 am
Reminds me of that song that goes
“I don’t wanna work
I just wanna bang on de drum all day”
But, that guy’s job was to come up with songs that people would pay for. No hits – no pay.
Back in the 1970s, I was wondering “what to do with my life”. My girlfriend at the time told me to think of the coolest thing ever, and that someone or some company out there also thought it was the coolest thing ever, and was eager to teach it to someone. I guess I was lucky in that I had such a great job (offshore field service) that I never HAD to go to work, rather I GOT to go to work.
Of course, to get that job required years of less desirable work.
JimmyPx · February 17, 2026 at 9:32 am
This is really a more serious issue than people think, we have a large portion of Generation Z who are like this and have had “failure to launch”.
They are legally adults but mentally, intellectually and maturity wise are 15-16 year olds.
They want to live with their parents (who pay ALL of those nasty bills), work a part time job for spending money (which is strictly for weed and lattes at Starbucks) and spend all day playing video games, being on social media with their friends and watching Netflix.
HOW DARE YOU ask them to work a full time job, that is slavery (direct quote). Us older folks are “stupid and brainwashed for working like that” even though we pay all of the bills !
I have a 23 year old daughter just like this, she lived with my Ex and then me but she was going to college when living with me but when she dropped out because going to classes was “too much like work”, she was pissed that I demanded that she go to Trade School and learn a trade.
She moved in with her loser boyfriend, that lasted a few months and then she moved to the other side of the country, became gay and lives with her girlfriend and her parent’s sponging off them.
They never have an answer when you ask “what happens when the bill paying parents die and no one is paying the bills” ?
Answer — “I’ll think of something”.
It’s awful, these kids aren’t worth the powder to blow to Hell. A sloth isn’t as lazy as they are and in my daughter’s case she wasn’t raised like this and her 2 similar age siblings both work full time jobs, I dunno.
Gerry · February 17, 2026 at 9:57 am
“Why can’t everyone just trade and barter for stuff?”
Excellent point but what does she have to trade or barter for?
Tom762 · February 17, 2026 at 3:23 pm
Not to be rude, but women have the ultimate barter goodies. They know it too…
ruralcounsel · February 21, 2026 at 11:09 am
That will only last her until she’s about 40 or 45. Then her sexual marketplace value drops pretty darn fast.
ghostsniper · February 17, 2026 at 10:54 am
Not picking on your sister specifically, as what you have described is happening everywhere these days. But she has done a supreme job of NOT doing her job as a parent along with her husband. They have raised 2 adults that have the minds of children, and apparently the parents do not see the error of their ways.
At some point there will be change. No one gets to live free forever. No one.
That thing in the vid above?
Put her out in the field picking bell peppers, in place of the illegal aliens, for a year and she will run for the closest urban job she can find. But don’t let her run. Force her to work in the field for 5 more years, then she can go do whatever she wants, but under supervision.
Didn’t FDR have some sort of mandatory work program back in the 30’s and 40’s?
Divemedic · February 17, 2026 at 1:28 pm
I love my sister, but she is an airheaded liberal, which is why her kids are the way they are.
EN2 SS · February 17, 2026 at 7:17 pm
No one gets to live free forever. No one.
You think so? It’s in the news everyday just how many freeloaders live off the government and have for generations. People several hundred years old still on SS? Someone is cashing those checks.
Don in Oregon · February 17, 2026 at 11:13 am
AI and robots will manufacture everything and do all the work and everything will be free and we will all live on UBI.
TJ · February 17, 2026 at 11:52 am
I know it’s a hard theoretical step to take, but the fundamental issue is spiritual. A person that does not have a Christian culture as the core of his being will fall prey to demonic forces that desire his destruction. Same kind of appetite in them as in the viscous dog attacking a kitten. Life is more than these few years we have here. A smart version of you will twig to that before you take that last breath. Check out the Eastern Orthodox church. Russian variant is best. Greek is OK. Romanian has the best looking girls.
Lynn · February 17, 2026 at 12:10 pm
And this is how you end up as a drugged out homeless person.
@HomeInSC · February 17, 2026 at 12:51 pm
She ain’t looking like trophy wife or sugar daddy material.
Does she want a place to live? Food to eat?
LOL
Tsgt Joe · February 17, 2026 at 1:43 pm
I’m a somewhat conservative boomer but I totally agree with her. She should not have to dance to someone else’s tune, she should not have to subordinate her true self to someone else’s vision. Go forth, be free, be strong but dont expect me or anyone else to fund it. Fuck you if you expect to do it on someone elses dime. Let me amend that, she is cute and does have a sexy voice, maybe if she got rid of the hardware on her face she could be someones side piece. No, she’d have to live up to someones expectations about time, performance and attitude.
Divemedic · February 17, 2026 at 4:39 pm
I dont think its would work for her. She says outright- she doesn’t want to work.
wheels · February 17, 2026 at 2:46 pm
They really don’t understand how economies work, and have been trained to feel, not think, so they can’t realize what consequences are likely to result from decisions and actions.
Somewhere I have an image someone snapshotted of a Twitter exchange some years ago when a woman advocating communism was asked what she expected to be doing after the communists took over. She said that she’d be enjoying her hobby of painting and teaching organic gardening on her farm.
The response that was included in the snapshot was “YOUR farm?”
Vlad the non-Impaler · February 17, 2026 at 3:22 pm
That thing in the video is disgusting.
She doesn’t want to work so I guess it’s up to the rest of us to pay for her needs.
Here’s an idea for her…and I’m just spitballing here…Stop paying for fucking tattoos!
Stop paying for metal to get shoved into your face! It’s stupid and makes you look foolish.
You may find that your money goes farther when you actually buy the shit you *need*, not the shit you just *want*. Either that or you can start foraging for protein in mens restrooms.
Treefarmer · February 17, 2026 at 3:36 pm
I will always believe that your friends are more important than your family. If your family is as cool as the friends you get to pick throughout life, you’re a lucky person.
Slow Joe Crow · February 17, 2026 at 10:24 pm
I’m thankful my kids turned out OK, perhaps a result of more hands off ing or perhaps luck. Our son and his friends actually lean conservative and work for a living. Our daughter was slower to launch but she and her friends spent an evening complaining about taxes, she also works for a living. As for the waste product in the video Lenin said who does not work does not eat.
James · February 17, 2026 at 11:00 pm
I while not defending these kids do understand why to a large degree many seem to be giving up.
The cost of homes/higher education that seems soon will be wiped by ai ect. and world leadership that has the moral values of a dumpster rat will (actual,dumpster rats have better set of values….,sorry rodents!)depress anyone,even someone who has in theory”made it”.
Yes,we need to instill in young folks a desire to find and reach goals thru actual effort,but,we also need to get a fix on what the hell let our country get the way it did also so more folks can see attainable goals and lives.
C · February 18, 2026 at 11:06 am
I tell people all the time how much I hate whatever job I’m at. Some people assume that means I don’t want to work. It blows their mind when I say that I love working. I’d love to go be a mountain man off in the wilderness or never leave my little patch of dirt. I could be completely off grid and not have to consume a single public resource. Unfortunately the powers that be wouldn’t like that. So here I am still wearing chains like the rest of my fellow tax cattle.
nones · February 18, 2026 at 11:16 am
My first thought is HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What a loser. My first suggestion would to be to go out and get a bigger booger ring. That’ll make yew so purty some man will want you for arm candy and let yew lead a life of leisure. Hork, patooey.
ribeye · February 19, 2026 at 5:30 pm
We do live in an economy, and a country, where there’s some real perversity going on in terms of how people are rewarded. I know people who have made massive amounts of money working jobs where they really didn’t hardly do anything, people who have lived comfortably (for years!) off salaries paid by companies that have never and may never actually make actual products that anyone buys or is able to buy. People get rich off companies like that, still without real products. Some people get rich off such companies!
In the US to some degree it does feel like there’s a tampon tree and a TV tree and a whole lot of trees over in China or wherever; we all just get these things off this boat or that boat. Why should the slackoff programmer who’s working on a project that will never reach market get allocated two or three hundred thousand dollars worth of imports when the barista only gets thirty thousand? At least the barista made something real that people wanted.
Divemedic · February 19, 2026 at 6:26 pm
It’s about value. What is value? It’s whatever the buyer and seller agree is reasonable.
Each of us is selling a product (our labor) and your employer is buying it.
The barista is getting a portion of the money that the coffee shop collects for that cup of coffee. The coffee shop supplies the cup, the coffee, the water, the coffee making machine, the advertising, and all other business expenses, including the cost of the barista’s time. If the barista is paid too much, the coffee is too expensive and the coffee shop goes out of business, meaning the owners of the shop lose their investment. If the shop tries to pay baristas too little, no one takes the job. Supply and demand.
The same is true of the programmer. That programmer needs to be paid a rate that is close to what other employers are paying, or they will accept a job elsewhere. The supply of programmers is less than the supply of people who can pour a cup of coffee, so they price of the programmer’s labor is higher. Supply and demand.
If a company doesn’t produce products or services, they will eventually answer to their owners, because they will lose money.
ribeye · February 20, 2026 at 2:01 am
While true in principal it is like many things complicated in practice. The barista’s manager has it easy; he looks and sees if the barista is making coffee, if the customers are happy, if the money is coming in at least about as fast as its going out. The barista’s projects take minutes to complete and feedback comes back just a little slower.
In the world of tech startups, its as if the barista (well, team of baristas rather) might be able to over the course of the next couple months or even years, put together a cup of covfefe. The manager doesn’t exactly know what covfefe is, and the customer, that is the investor, doesn’t either. But the investor isn’t even exactly buying the covfefe for himself, he’s gambling on the fact that maybe his engineers will figure out a good way to make covfefe and that maybe there’s a market for it that he’ll be able to capitalize on. To a large extent no one in the chain can confidently look in and say if things are going correctly, and the founders and CEOs wind up in a position where really, to keep the company running, they just need to keep up a certain level of investor buy in, and the skillset required to keep towing investors along is completely separate from knowing how to make covfefe or manage engineers. If you fail you can blame your cofounders when you start up next time and thus preserve your credibility.
Very likely the company dies before you get any covfefe into any customer’s hands. The engineers then get to leave and head to the next startup. If you play things well you can make a full career without making a single product.
In principal I understand and accept and can rationalize how this can happen, given the gullible investor. My mystification arises more so from the basic economic arrangement whereby what feels like a huge fraction of some of the brightest people in the country wind up getting extremely generously compensated for doing a bunch of work which at the end of the day amounts to absolutely nothing, and the economy still runs! We still have products up to our ears, food in abundance. Is .1% of the population just so productive that it works out ? Are the Chinese just really generous ? Are we just running off of accumulated capital from the last 50 years that’s going to evaporate soon? Where is the productivity in the American economy that justifies this prosperity ?
And I’m just talking about the ‘tech startup’ industry, we haven’t even touched government employees and contractors and grant recipients. Speaking as a relatively young person the number of my similarly aged acquaintances who have ever worked in an industrially productive job is vanishingly small. And I’m talking about people who do work, make good money, mostly college educated and if not then they still got jobs as if they had.
Divemedic · February 20, 2026 at 7:00 am
As someone who has an MBA, I can assure you that the process is way more complicated than that. I can’t explain how every part of economics works in a blog, even in college it takes a couple of years to even learn the basics of what you are asking. If you really want to know, take some college classes, especially at the gradate level.
You abuse your own metaphor, your manager (I assume you mean the CEO and other executives of your company) doesn’t have it ‘easy’- the job is far more than watching the workers make coffee. There is accounting, finance, marketing, personnel, regulatory compliance, and operations. A good CEO to run a large, or even mid, sized company is a specific skill set that very few people are good at. The bigger the company, the more rare the skillset, which is why the CEOs of the biggest companies make as much as they do.
The same business principles are in use for every company that provides any good or service: companies that are well managed and run are successful, those that are not, fail. Those investors lose their investment. It doesn’t matter if you are a software startup or you are making widgets.
That’s why, as an investor, you have to be careful who and which companies you invest in. Investors who aren’t careful aren’t investors for very long, because they lose too much money. Every single investor has at one time lost money in a bad investment. See my losses in Prosper as an example. Over the years, I have started several businesses, and a few of them failed. That happens, which is where the left gets the silly quote “Donald Trump has been bankrupt seven times” from. Trump hasn’t been bankrupt- companies that he owned have been bankrupt. It happens. It’s priced into the model, which is one of the reasons why interest rates are set where they are- the risk is baked into the loan.
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