What's With The Millennial Cult Of Not Working?
I was scrolling through Instagram Reels recently, as I sometimes do (okay, more times a day than I’d care to admit) when I came across a girl presenting the following prompt: What’s something that’s not a cult but borderline seems like one?
The response, which was threaded to the original post by a different user, really surprised me – it was a young guy, probably in his late 20s or early 30s, who said the following: “98% of the US population thinks it’s normal to work a 9-5 for 50 years, just to get 10 years of freedom.” He even closed out his diatribe with an extremely condescending “make it make sense at least.” There’s a lot to unpack here, but first, what’s this cult of being proud of not working and/or looking down on employed people in traditional workplaces...and how did we get here?