Most people can't afford to risk voluntarily making themselves vulnerable to being fired or laid off in a society with a weak social safety net, even when it is essential to scale back work for their physical and mental health.
Setting aside the merits of the term, the quiet quitting advocates are actually right that it can feel downright transgressive to say “no” to overwork. But it’s not just because of hustle culture. It’s because in a capitalist economy, companies achieve bigger profit margins in part by wringing as much as possible out of laborers in a manner that exceeds the companies' costs.
helps cover the gap. That anxiety some of us feel about looking lazy even when we’re doing more than we’re formally supposed to is baked into the very structure of how most profit-seeking companies operate.In other words, quiet quitting is always going to run-up against structural economic forces.
The grievances that lead to quiet quitting can be more productively and sustainably channeled by forming unions. Unions can act as advocates for workers, reduce arbitrary firings, clarify labor expectations in a way that counteracts the drift toward overwork, and serve as a platform for collective action — including work slowdowns that, yes,.
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