ICYMI | Lost In The Future
To simmer this down, the price of everything has kept increasing as wages stagnated. Simultaneously, businesses spent several years telling workers they were asking for too much and doing too little, telling people they were “quiet quitting” in 2022 (a grotesque term that means “doing the job you are paid to do”), and, a year later, insisting that years of remote work was actually bad because profits didn’t reach the unrealistic expectations set by the post-lockdown boom of 2021. While the majority of people don't work remotely, from talking to the people I know outside of tech or business, there is a genuine sense that the media has allied itself with the bosses, and I imagine it's because of the many articles that literally call workers lazy.