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He did nail it, but the UK is exactly the same.
Just finished a 12 hr shift at a holiday camp in the Namco arcade…… 80% of the guests are way over weight, 10% morbidly. 5% of those are so fat they ride round on mobility scooters!
At 18 I was earning around £23,000 doing engineering, 25 years later I’m on minimum wage servicing and clearing up after a load of kids who at 14 can’t even add 31 and 19, worse still nor can their parents! I kid you not, I had to break it down for this teenager, 30 + 10, blank face, then 9 +1 blank face, finally we got the answer… I was staggered.
No one will employ ‘older’ people, I believe it’s because they question being treated like poo and don’t just comply. My boss even told me last year he ‘took a chance on me’ being an older person when he employed me, that year I won employee of the year out of the whole camp, and that is the truth. Kids today, they can’t add up, they can’t spell or puntuate and most of my younger workmates can’t even function unless you tell them what to do and how to do it every minute of the day - if you don’t they just stop and do nothing. No initiative at all, literally like zombies. They learn nothing and pick nothing up skill wise. I have yet to work out if they are just plain lazy or they really are that dumb they can’t do anything.
I worry for our future, I really do. If there was ever some mass electrical failure they would be totally lost, it would be like going back to cavemen, except they weren’t lazy or fat, and knew how to feed themselves!