The good news is, we know how to fix that malaise – because many, many people have been right there with you before
As a connoisseur of the journalistic art of spinning out fake trends that exist solely to spark heated reactions from readers on the internet, I appreciate the invention of “quiet quitting”.
The term, which can be loosely defined as “people half-assing it at work”, may provoke in you the irrepressible urge to shout: “That’s not new!” Which means it is doing its job as a trend piece. As a piece of social analysis, though, it is most useful for its flaws: it’s just more evidence that the working people of today have all of the frustrations that working people have always had – but they’ve forgotten what we’re actually supposed to do about it.
Hamilton Nolan is a writer based in New York
