The soft life: why millennials are quitting the rat race

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theguardian.com

Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Meet the women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism and burnout

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Why run if there's no more a carrot dangling from the string?

And the treadmill is accelerating on top of that as well.

And there was never a carrot in the first place. It was a turd painted orange

I think describing former US President Trump this way would cause offense to the turd.

It's multi-pronged:

  • why put in effort for companies that will run you into the ground to save a fraction of a %, give you "raises" that don't even cover inflation and never adjust to market rates, or will fire you at will?
  • why work hard when the social contract has been severed; when the entire system is designed to funnel wealth to the richest, and return the working class to a feudalist underclass of renters.
  • why save for a future family when you can't ever have housing or economic security, and the system is hellbent on maintaining the status quo despite the fact it may create a lifetime of famine, war, and suffering for the children we already can't afford.

why work hard when the social contract has been severed;

There never was this. We had strong unions from the 1930s until the late 1970s. Since then, it's been non-stop capitalism fests.

That's because the job wasn't finished. People thought we could negotiate with capitalists.

Sure you can get a peace deal, just like you can get one with putin. The 1% kept soaking up the stolen surplus labor value, and have used that power and wealth to take us right back to the gilded age. when the time comes, no reforms... just a new way of life. We tried reforms yall. It did not work