Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this?

100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• sweetpotato@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s the whole deal of maximizing profit. If you can get your employees to work extra for free, you have a very successful business model.

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  • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, but you need to throw in some consideration for your employees, either material or symbolic.

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    • pathief@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That would be the nice and fair thing to do… However people are often happy with just a pat in the back so that’s what they get.

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• okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thanks for explaining it! That’s it, right? I was wondering what tf it was trying to allude to as “quiet quitting”. This isn’t satire, then?

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  • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s always been a push towards seeing working as a value in itself, but it was easier to trick people into working around the clock when wages allowed to reach one’s goals (a house, financial stability, sending your kids to college). It’s more difficult when workers live paycheck to paycheck and know that they won’t be economically able to retire.

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