Gen-Z and The Rise of 'Anti-Hustle' (Sophia Money-Coutts)

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Welcome to another episode of "Old Money Meets New Ideas," where today we're diving headfirst into the anti-hustle culture, thanks to none other than Sophia Money-Coutts. Is the traditional grind really superior, or is Gen-Z just smarter about work? Spoiler alert: spending your day in a bank that sounds like it's straight out of a Charles Dickens novel doesn’t necessarily mean you’re winning at life. Join us as we unravel an article so out of touch, it might as well be written on parchment. Who knew discussing work-life balance could be as entertaining as watching silver spoons try to understand TikTok? Buckle up; this isn’t your average career advice.

[donaldcodes]

this gives me "if you're homeless buy a house" energy

[daveblackman]

Ahh so a nepo kid is telling us how hard she worked by using her family money to get ahead. I can tell by her smugness in the thumbnail. Like “yep I know I’m rich from being born. But why are YOU so lazy?”

[Labyrinth]

The absolute audacity that bosses demand you have no side hustle, even if it won’t get in the way of your work hours. 😡😡😡

[ClTerYo]

“How dare you do extra work to make money? Why can’t you just be rich like me by coming from a family of “Money”? It’s even in my name!”

[kristinbytes]

As a member of the slacker generation, I approve of the anti-hustle generation.

[hiflyer]

I see people are still clinging to the outdated notion that working hard, staying late, and taking on extra tasks will get you ahead in a company. It won't, it will just motivate the company to exploit you. Anyone who has worked in a corporate environment for more that 15 minutes can tell you this.

[smjaiteh]

A “British journalist working for the Telegraph” is practically the most unlikeable combination of traits a modern human can have, but glad to see she has the personality to back it up.

[KarenTookTheKids]

She's right. All you need to do is pull yourself up by your bootstraps and buy a 4 bedroom suburban house at 21 for $19k after coming back from Vietnam 👍

[Sight-Beyond-Sight]

When I retired (43), I was sent a threatening letter from my last employer basically demanding I don't steal their customers or do work that would compete with their business. Pretty hard to enforce, really. Not only are companies pushing the "No side hustles while you are employed with us, " but they are attempting to derail any sort of ongoing career. Now we get these snooty people who have no idea what it means to work from the bottom telling us we do not know what it means to hustle.

[adamspencer]

Companies just get worse and worse, why work hard for them. I hustled for 20 years, it used to pay off, but in the last 5 years it just burned me out. I left my career and have never been happier.

[gunt-her]

She's trying to rationalize her -career propped up by daddy's money that no one outside the family cares about- "success" by thinking "it must be because I work very hard".

[jackcarraway]

Where did the US's obsession with "hustling" come from? Back in the 50's and 60's this concept was completely unheard of. You had one job that covered everything and you still had money left over to save/invest.

[OptometristDoctorLout]

“yOu HaVe No IdEa HoW dIfFiCuLt It Is To InVeSt MoMmY aNd DaDdYs MoNeY!” - Sophia the money doofus

[pananthony]

Why wont my subjects work for me for food and shelter anymore like their grandparents did? How am I suppose to afford my third yacht and eigth Bentley

[kailianglf]

reminds me of that anchorman 2 character, "I inherited 300M and worked really hard to make it 305M"

[SuprDupr]

Gen-Z isn't getting lazy. Companies are just unable to afford labor.

[alex_lll]

From millenial to gen-z folks - just wait it out, another 10-20 years and next generation after you will take the torch of "laziest generation there is".

[Maxშემიწყალე]

Going above and beyond never pays off. I worked at a major e-commerce company from Canada for years. They were in a tight situation with a project not being able to be done. My colleague and I stepped up and knocked it out over a weekend pulling 16-18 hour days. My reward? I was laid off three weeks later because the company heard a portion of their employees were starting a union, so they laid off everyone in that region.

[Name-rudi]

These people are teally disconnected. Most people I know have second jobs, to hopefully put down on a house. This generation is already overworked, and you need time to recoup. Exhaustion 24/7 is not grinding it. You will burn yourself out, and somehow, they expect this of you, yet they themselves never had to.

[Bella.Parabellum]

I am getting strong "let them eat cake" vibes here.

"Those lazy Gen Z not wanting to slave away and make sure my family members grow up in Land Rovers!"