2023-11-20 13:11:11
Neoliberalism and turbo capitalism. On the one hand, companies have insane annual growth rates in the double-digit percentage range. Constantly increasing stress factor in the workplace. Many workers simply can’t do it anymore.
On the other hand, cashing out, tax loopholes, ominously nested fake company constructs, foundations as “legalized tax fraud”. Politicians as employees of profit-hungry corporations, banks, real estate sharks and tycoons. Poverty is increasing, the middle class is disappearing. Now exorbitant inflation rates in all areas. Working people can no longer make ends meet with their stagnating income.
More and more young workers are questioning the normality of working 40 or more hours per week. People from generations Y and Z differ noticeably from their previous generations in their values and life plans. On a first-name basis with digital technology. Social media-savvy, socio-ecological mentality characterized by coolness and tolerance. Many of them confidently and uncompromisingly demand from employers significantly reduced working hours (25 to 32 hours), a three- or four-day week and non-working weekends anyway. Some of them even with full salary compensation.
Work-life balance, work-life integration as a life motto – work to live. This is all the more so as purchasing one’s own four walls or even a home has already become illusory for most young people. Working your ass off for decades so that the rich get even richer. No. A life with less work and consumption can be more fulfilling than constantly sacrificing quality of life for greedy shareholders and multinational robber barons. Generations Y and Z are right.
Sepp Schnöll, teacher, 5431 Kuchl
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