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I'm sure that with the right search engine one could find a century worth of mentions for absolutely any common phrase, for example "people are working harder and harder", "children don't like to work anymore", "there are not enough jobs", etc.etc.

Such memes only prove the people spreading them don't understand selection bias and cherry picking. "Nobody learns statistics anymore."

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This is missing the point of the meme. The point is that the phrase “nobody wants to work” is a meaningless constant refrain that goes back decades. It’s not new, and it’s not true.

You mean that "Nobody wants to work anymore" is a successful meme, then.

> The point is that the phrase “nobody wants to work” is a meaningless constant refrain that goes back decades

And you are missing the point of my rebuttal: that by the same method anything can be made to appear like a constant meaningless refrain, regardless of actually being one.

It should be clear to anyone with even lacklustre intelligence that finding recurring instances of the phrase "there are not enough jobs" throughout history does not rule out that there were times when that concern was indeed warranted.

You're criticizing the meme but you just restated its core point.

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