They were making triple plus trips of what I made when I started working in the mid 90s.

I'm guessing that means minimum wage?

Truly, things just aren't the same as 30+ years ago. Fewer kids are working. It's just the way things go. I'm sure back in the 90s, the older generations were saying the kids of the 90s didn't want to work. And their elders said the same about them and so forth and so on.

It's all relative.

Businesses that mainly employee workers who need their minimum wage jobs are really being hit harder than others.

For the last 50 years, those who needed minimum wage jobs have typically been teenagers and young people just starting out in the world.

Also, going to point out that it's not that kids today are just lazy. They also have opportunities that no other generation before them ever had.

You might want to go look up how much money kids, and a I mean kids as young as 6-7 years old, make with things like YouTube channels.

Go look up how much the kid from Ryan's Toy Review on YouTube makes.

Seriously, go do that right this minute and come back and tell me why you think he would prefer working for you.

My son is 10. Ten years old and made about $15,000 last year from ONE book we self published on Amazon about Pokémon.

And he's not even the only one in his class who has done something like that.

The world is changing pretty drastically, pretty quickly. Trying to shoehorn the younger generations into traditional work culture is just a catastrophic failure waiting to happen.

Before you start ripping apart an entire generation, you might want to go look at some of the things that they're actually doing and asking yourself what you could be offering them that would compare.

You're always going to be able to find someone who needs a job badly enough that they will work a crap job for low pay. But they're not going to be the brightest, or the most reliable, or the hardest working. Those kids have already figured out a much better way. And they shouldn't be criticized for it.

Edited to add:

Just wanted to say that I'm fully aware that all youtubers don't make anywhere near what the kid from. Ryan's Toy Review makes. At one point he was the highest earning youtuber and certainly the highest earning youtuber that age. I just wanted those unaware of such things to see how crazy it is.

I just wanted to point out some non-traditional jobs out there that are available to literally anyone these days.

They were making triple plus trips of what I made when I started working in the mid 90s.

I'm guessing that means minimum wage?

Truly, things just aren't the same as 30+ years ago. Fewer kids are working. It's just the way things go. I'm sure back in the 90s, the older generations were saying the kids of the 90s didn't want to work. And their elders said the same about them and so forth and so on.

It's all relative.

Businesses that mainly employee workers who need their minimum wage jobs are really being hit harder than others.

For the last 50 years, those who needed minimum wage jobs have typically been teenagers and young people just starting out in the world.

Also, going to point out that it's not that kids today are just lazy. They also have opportunities that no other generation before them ever had.

You might want to go look up how much money kids, and a I mean kids as young as 6-7 years old, make with things like YouTube channels.

Go look up how much the kid from Ryan's Toy Review on YouTube makes.

Seriously, go do that right this minute and come back and tell me why you think he would prefer working for you.

My son is 10. Ten years old and made about $15,000 last year from ONE book we self published on Amazon about Pokémon.

And he's not even the only one in his class who has done something like that.

The world is changing pretty drastically, pretty quickly. Trying to shoehorn the younger generations into traditional work culture is just a catastrophic failure waiting to happen.

Before you start ripping apart an entire generation, you might want to go look at some of the things that they're actually doing and asking yourself what you could be offering them that would compare.

You're always going to be able to find someone who needs a job badly enough that they will work a crap job for low pay. But they're not going to be the brightest, or the most reliable, or the hardest working. Those kids have already figured out a much better way. And they shouldn't be criticized for it.

They were making triple plus trips of what I made when I started working in the mid 90s.

I'm guessing that means minimum wage?

Truly, things just aren't the same as 30+ years ago. Fewer kids are working. It's just the way things go. I'm sure back in the 90s, the older generations were saying the kids of the 90s didn't want to work. And their elders said the same about them and so forth and so on.

It's all relative.

Businesses that mainly employee workers who need their minimum wage jobs are really being hit harder than others.

For the last 50 years, those who needed minimum wage jobs have typically been teenagers and young people just starting out in the world.

Also, going to point out that it's not that kids today are just lazy. They also have opportunities that no other generation before them ever had.

You might want to go look up how much money kids, and a I mean kids as young as 6-7 years old, make with things like YouTube channels.

Go look up how much the kid from Ryan's Toy Review on YouTube makes.

Seriously, go do that right this minute and come back and tell me why you think he would prefer working for you.

My son is 10. Ten years old and made about $15,000 last year from ONE book we self published on Amazon about Pokémon.

And he's not even the only one in his class who has done something like that.

The world is changing pretty drastically, pretty quickly. Trying to shoehorn the younger generations into traditional work culture is just a catastrophic failure waiting to happened.

Before you start ripping apart an entire generation, you might want to go look at some of the things that they're actually doing and asking yourself what you could be offering them that would compare.

You're always going to be able to find someone who needs a job badly enough that they will work a crap job for low pay. But they're not going to be the brightest, or the most reliable, or the hardest working. Those kids have already figured out a much better way. And they shouldn't be criticized for it.