Relevant video from How Business Worked. (on YouTube)

TLDW: No one wants to work anymore is a running theme throughout the history of pro-business periodicals. Businesses are lon accustomed to leaning on contrived desperation to fill the ranks of their overworked, underpaid, arduous job positions in toxic work conditions. Any time there is an alternative, and workers bial from an industry for positions that are slightly better, some editorialist has to write an opinion piece that no one wants to work anymore.

Of note is the Great Resignation of 2021, in which furloughed workers took upa hobby during the COVID-19 lockdown, and some were able to monetize their product. Others still recognized their prior job was to unhealthy to return to. For a short while, bottom-rung positions had to compete to fill their ranks, and workforces got a brief taste of class consciousness. The owner class is still sore about it in October 2026.