Does anyone else feel like this is a weird idiom that falsely grants workers more agency than they really have? It reminds me of telling poor people that if you don’t like the wages in your neighborhood you can simply move. As if workers are in a position to choose their jobs rational consumer style instead of facing a system of work or starve/work or have no healthcare, etc. Maybe it only applies to white collar workers ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Does anyone else feel like this is a weird idiom that falsely grants workers more agency than they really have? It reminds me of telling poor people that if you don’t like the wages in your neighborhood you can simply move. As if workers are in a position to choose their jobs rational consumer style instead of facing a system of work or starve/work or have no healthcare, etc.
Maybe it only applies to white collar workers ¯_(ツ)_/¯