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Paul Fairie@paulisci · Jul 19, 2022

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

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A humorous thread documenting how "nobody wants to work anymore" has been a recurring headline complaint for over a century, with newspaper clippings dating back to 1894 showing this is a perennial panic rather than a modern phenomenon.

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    A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

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    2022

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    2014

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    2006

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    1999

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    1981

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    1979

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    1969

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    1952

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    1940

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    1937

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    1922

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    1916

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    1905

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    1894

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    Hi to everyone following this account from this thread 👋 Mostly expect silly jokes, jokes about politics because something is stressing me out because that is my coping mechanism, old newspaper clippings, and then we finish off the year with a Headline of the Year contest.

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    Citations for the images: x.com/teach_the_past…

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    Bloomberg@business · Aug 10, 2022

    Maybe it's that people don't want to work -- for what employers are offering trib.al/fkdH8vM