Letters: Readers respond to an article about quitting the rat race, with some saying their generation was handed an untenable position and others saying the struggle is nothing new
Like you can look at Ben Franklins newspaper from 1742 and find essentially the exact same line.
I went to https://franklinpapers.org/ and skimmed over all the documents labeled “Extract from the Gazette, 1742,” but I didn’t find that line. Do you know which issue it was in, or have a source with full copies of the Pennsylvania Gazette instead of just “extracts?”
Apologies for the confusion. I am not literally quoting a specific year in which Benjamin Franklins newspaper said this exact line. Just, as someone who has read several biographies on the man, a recurring theme of his writings (both personal and professional, including quips in the almanac) essentially boil down to pithy remarks of “everyone is working harder now and getting less for it”.
It’s just kind of a universal experience that essentially every generation has felt.
I went to https://franklinpapers.org/ and skimmed over all the documents labeled “Extract from the Gazette, 1742,” but I didn’t find that line. Do you know which issue it was in, or have a source with full copies of the Pennsylvania Gazette instead of just “extracts?”
Apologies for the confusion. I am not literally quoting a specific year in which Benjamin Franklins newspaper said this exact line. Just, as someone who has read several biographies on the man, a recurring theme of his writings (both personal and professional, including quips in the almanac) essentially boil down to pithy remarks of “everyone is working harder now and getting less for it”.
It’s just kind of a universal experience that essentially every generation has felt.
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