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Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
Work has been stripped bare, unveiling that most of our current system of work is built on the idea of suffering, on pain. Consequently, people are either giving in (i.e. quiet quitting, anti-ambition), giving up (i.e. great resignation), or rising up and demanding change (i.e. anti-work, 4-hour workweek, UBI).
Pleasure Activism
I wrote about the ongoing normalization of white-collared, salaried overwork - and how it’s made us bad at community and particularly bad at solidarity and mustering the political will to change and expand labor protections. It’s “right to work” at its most pernicious, and ramifications on society as a whole are wide-reaching. It doesn’t have to be... See more
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“Why are rich married men suddenly—and finally—reducing their working hours, by an unusual degree?” Derek Thompson asks.
In general, poor people work more than wealthy people, Thompson writes. But in the U.S., from 1980 to 2005, the richest 10 percent of married men increased their work hours by more than any other... See more
instagram.comMy friends and I all happily logged into our email addresses from our crappy little apartments, checking in after hours from the used sofas where we watched The Hills and Rock of Love, using the laptops we’d bought in college. We competed to be the first to arrive at the office and the last to leave, marking our productivity by the time spent in
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