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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Feels like 3 things in our current discourse:

  • No feeling of making a difference with your work (pointlessness)
  • Disingenuous workplace cultures (wE'Re a fAmiLy)
  • Extremely long work hours (WFH is great but "always connected" means you're always working)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m really not sure how to solve for 1. So much of modern white collar work is patently pointless (or counterproductive). Definitely hard to stay engaged, especially when few of the benefits of increased productivity actually accrue to the folks doing the work. The disingenuous messaging of bullet 2 often highlights the difference in priorities between those who benefit from from increased productivity and those who just, you know, end up having to work more.

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