Posted on 11/15/2023 6:48:14 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Tucker Carlson, the far-right former Fox news host known for his incendiary takes, might have actually made himself the darling of liberal Gen Zers. During a recent appearance on comedian Theo Von’s “This Past Weekend” podcast, Carlson, 54, took an unexpected angle: Supporting young workers who are exasperated by thankless work.
“I just so hate that culture that treats people like they're not people,” Carlson said. “And for what?"
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Carlson went on to reference a video posted by a recent college graduate that went viral on TikTok. The poster, struggling with time management and work-life balance, told viewers she doesn’t understand how a typical 9-to-5 is sustainable.
“If I was able to walk to work, it’d be fine,” the poster said. “Nothing to do with my job at all…Being in the office 9-to-5, like, if it was remote, you’d get off at 5, and you’re home and everything’s fine.” But because her job is in person, “I get on the train at 7:30 and I don’t get home till like 6:15 earliest. How do you have friends? How do you have time for, like, dating? Like I don’t have time for anything, and I’m like so stressed out.”
Naturally, certain corners of the internet were quick to ridicule the poster, saying she needs a wake-up call. As Carlson put it, “Everyone's like, ‘shut up and work, honey.’” But he, famously short-tempered, took a more sympathetic approach. “I watch this, and I’m like, ‘no, no, I hope you win.’ The seeds of revolution are sprouting in my heart.”
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A college graduate who just started her first job shared the shock and upset of working a 9-to-5
https://www.insider.com/college-graduate-upset-shock-working-nine-to-five-tiktok-2023-10
Well, what she needs to realize is that life is not always fair and there will always be people you dislike and disagree with.
Tucker Carlson - far right - incendiary. Oh my. He sounds like a very bad man.
The point that a 40 hour week of working with 15 more hours of commuting does argue against working in a big city.
My commute is two minutes, on foot (one way)—30-45 seconds by car, depending how many vehicles are at the four-way stop.
Tucker is old enough to know that truth. He is obviously playing to the Low IQ audience of that podcast just as he does with politics.
no one is making them work 9-5
if they want to work part time, feel free to do so! But be aware that those who work longer and hard will pass you by over time and you might eventually regret it or envy will get the best of you.
If anything that video highlights the importance of living in close proximity to where you work. She says herself she’s not upset about the hours but about the commute. She mentions that moving close to her current job is off the table, so unless her current employer operates in other states/cities to which she could transfer, her only option is to get a new job.
I bet her employer isn’t going to make any special accommodations for a whiny Gen Z Tik-Tok’er.
I think a lot of older people don’t get it.
Today isn’t just like 1980 but with worse music.
Today isn’t better than 1980 because interest rates were higher then.
The country is $33T in debt.
The country pays $1T a year in interest payments alone.
Wages have been stagnant for 40 years — inflation drives up costs everywhere, but wages do not keep pace.
Social life is almost entirely digital and that sucks. Sure, YOU may decide to socialize out in the real world, but if 99% of everyone is still digital, your effort will fail.
Leadership positions in politics and business go almost exclusively to Ivy League educated lawyers and MBA types. You don’t fit into that category? Well, you will never get that big promotion. Your corporate career is going nowhere.
And you are tracked and surveilled everywhere you go. Do the wrong thing, say the wrong thing, you could lose everything you have.
This is an absolutely rotten time to be young. People have no hope. They don’t see anything getting better for them no matter how hard they work. Jump back to about 1980. Reagan spoke of “Morning in America” and people latched on to that because they could feel it. But no one feels that today. People have given up. And the problems are deep and systemic. You can’t say “pull yourself up”. That’s not a realistic solution at all.
And don’t tell me “My nephew is young, and he’s doing great.” I don’t care about your nephew. I don’t care about the 5% who are doing just swell. I care about 95% of the young people who will look back at the Joe Biden years as the best years of their lives. Think about that.
When I am in my main client's office (about once every two weeks), my commute is 25 minutes each way.
When I am traveling out of state to my head office (about three times per month), my commute is 2 hours each way.
When I am working in my office, my commute is about 20 seconds if I hurry and about 3 minutes if I stop for coffee in the kitchen on the way downstairs. :-)
You get it. Well said, every word.
This place is over-represented with aging Boomers who think the Reagan years were just yesterday.
Gen-Z has been sold a bill of goods by the older generations.
Gen-Z will eventually be in charge. Boomers can't live forever and Gen-X is small in numbers. Gen-Z are huge and they're going to force changes to the way things have been for the past century in ways we don't yet know. But, there will be changes.
Tucker should be smart enough to know that these articles are fake.
It’s true that a regular job can grab so much of your time that you don’t have time to date. I chose a job as a government lawyer in part so I could have some boundaries and be able to try to find a husband. It still entailed a lot of unpaid overtime but I was better situated than my friends in private firms.
I really feel sorry for lonely young people. I think we need to step up and start introducing them and extending hospitality, so they can meet people in a casual way and be somewhat assured they are not psycho or something. I don’t think we need arranged marriages at all, but I kind of appreciate how the parents of a couple of southeast Asian friends had realistic suggestions about who their kids might hit it off with and introduced them. No pressure, just practice interacting, and possibly a potential mate.
What this girl apparently doesn’t realize is that for many of these professional jobs, there are millions of immigrants from places like Mumbai and Beijing who think a two-hour commute (each way) to a job in New York City or Philadelphia or Los Angeles is a dream life.
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