The sad part I hear about the "gen z stare is its just youth entering the workplace.

How many Millenials were described as aimless slackers in the workplace in just about the exact same way, gen x as gloomy and unmotivated, and so on. Idle hands, gilded youth, layabouts, beatniks, etc theres countless terms adjacent.

Its a tale old as time older generations acting like the younger arent interested in work "in the right way", and one I do not want to perpetuate

> Its a tale old as time older generations acting like the younger arent interested in work "in the right way", and one I do not want to perpetuate

You can generalize that statement to include other things besides work. E.g. the music from my teenage years was much better than that slop kids are listening to now.

I guess it's just old people's way of saying "I like my life, and I think that the conditions of my life contributed to that, so therefore you should want the same conditions so you can turn out just like me"