Comment on What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials & Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

aes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• RoryButlerMusic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a way to turn people off of what they really mean.

  “Quiet quitting” is just doing your job. Trying to make it seem like breaking your back to help someone profit is the minimum to do unless you want to be branded a quitter.

  “Soft saving” is apparently the requirement of working til your dead because no one gets paid enough to…hard save…I guess.

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  • ours@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No no, they don’t die, they “soft live”.

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  • aes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yes i definitely didn’t know that

    now go find literally anyone else to explain the obvious to

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    • RoryButlerMusic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ask a question, albeit rhetorical. Get answer that seems to agree with your stance.

      Be a dick about it.

      You got many friends?

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      • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Also thanks for explaining them, I had no clue what soft saving meant.

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    • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Read in the best announcer voice in your head: “D-d-d-d-douchebag!”

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      • stringere@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Killer Instinct announcer voice works best for stuttered utterances.

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• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  what the fuck is up with all these pansy-ass terms suits keep coming up with? “quiet quitting” and now “soft saving”?

  It’s their attempt at managing the narrative in their favor.

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• drphungky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Neither of those terms were developed by suits. They both were popularized in the Gen Z social sphere, namely TikTok, and then well after they went viral and had plenty of adherents, started being picked up in the normal media cycle of regurgitating whatever is happening on social media and seeing what sticks.

  They’re both just a rejection of “old” cultural norms, in this case specifically a rejection of “hustle culture” and to a lesser extent the FIRE (i.e. early retirement) movement, both of which had their heyday on the internet many years ago.

  And like…this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Gen Z is typically much more concerned about mental health (focus on now) than prior generations, has a very doom and gloom outlook for the future (focus on now), and is the first generation to be raised by people who didn’t tell them “just work hard and you’ll be fine eventually” (focus on now). Is it any surprise that they’re less forward looking? What do they have to look forward to? Call it cyanide if you want, but while I don’t necessarily agree with it, it certainly feels like a natural development to me.

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