“For one thing, older workers know how to work.”
This seemingly statement is nonetheless profound. The few 20-somethings I have dealt with have been 90% worthless. The incredible thing is that I have found them amazingly uncreative, narrow-minded when they think (rare), unfocused when they don’t, and lethargic. As far as their vaunted “computer literacy” is concerned - to put it in computing terms, their multitasking executive has so much overhead that there isn’t much left to do actual work with.
And THESE are the ones WITH jobs!
>I have found them amazingly uncreative, narrow-minded when they think (rare),
I would posit that to be a result of a) public-school (where group-based thinking must rule) and/or b) summary dismissal of ideas which are not generated via group-based thought. {That is to say, when you get ignored for voicing your thoughts there is a great temptation to stop voicing them.}
>unfocused when they don’t,
I would posit that this is a result of being “disconnected” from their “co-processors.”
>and lethargic.
Ok, that one I can empathize with. Previously the subject of delayed gratification came up, and well when that gratification is so delayed that you despair of achieving it, sometimes in conjunction with an almost ridicule for it, there is little left to hope for.
A good example might be a guy choosing to save his virginity for marriage, getting ribbed about it from fellow guys, and then realizing just how stacked against him the social* [and legal**] decks are (because he’s male), throw in the “modern woman***” as a kicker and why in hell would he want to tie himself to her?
* Society, I find, does its best to ridicule “manly” traits: honor, virtue, logical-thinking (oddly, but look at law and it’s current feeling-based bent)
** Legal, is all to ready to behave in unjust manner to men; take restraining orders (which don’t require a trial) and how that automatically puts a man on the “prohibited persons” list regarding firearms.
*** Chesterton said that feminism is mode of thought that hates everything feminine; given that society has swallowed feminism, is it any wonder that they hate everyone and everything? (Even at the subconscious levels.)