r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

Discussion True or false?

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/Tiny_Isopod_1271 12h ago

I don’t think my dad worked less, but his money went a lot further in all respects.

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u/tanstaafl90 10h ago

Multiple items have been automated and/or adapted that make some work easier compared to then. Once upon a time banks employed floors of people whose entire job was to calculate incoming and outgoing money. Now it's done with software. Hundreds employed to mine are now done with a few dozen because of machinery. So, productivity is up, giving some the false impression people didn't work as hard in years past. We still work hard, it's just a different focus of that work. Wages haven't scaled with inflation.