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Antiwork in a german newspaper

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2022-03/anti-work-kuendigungen-usa-arbeitsmarkt-doreen-ford I tried to post a fully translated version of the whole article twice, but my posts didn't show up somehow. The last paragraph is the most interesting one imo. “But populists like Watters, in their gloating, overlook that behind Ford and other “Antiwork” participants are serious questions to the prevailing economic system. The “anti-work” movement has become so popular that the investment bank Goldman Sachs warned in an analysis that the labor market could suffer long-term consequences. Especially since the crisis of meaning began long before the outbreak of Covid-19. In his 2018 book Bullshit Jobs, anthropologist David Graeber criticized that the majority of today's professional activities are meaningless occupations that are psychologically harmful. Graeber, who died in 2020, was one of the co-initiators of the “Occupy Wall Street” actions, which superficially remained without long-term social impact. Perhaps the wish of many entrepreneurs, conservative politicians and economists that the…


https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2022-03/anti-work-kuendigungen-usa-arbeitsmarkt-doreen-ford

I tried to post a fully translated version of the whole article twice, but my posts didn't show up somehow.

The last paragraph is the most interesting one imo.

“But populists like Watters, in their gloating, overlook that
behind Ford and other “Antiwork” participants are serious questions to the prevailing economic system. The “anti-work” movement has become so popular that the investment bank Goldman Sachs warned in an analysis that the labor market could suffer long-term consequences. Especially since the crisis of meaning began long before the outbreak of Covid-19. In his 2018 book Bullshit Jobs, anthropologist David Graeber criticized that the majority of today's professional activities are meaningless occupations that are psychologically harmful. Graeber, who died in 2020, was one of the co-initiators of the “Occupy Wall Street” actions, which superficially remained without long-term social impact. Perhaps the wish of many entrepreneurs, conservative politicians and economists that the revolt of American workers will die down with the pandemic will come true. But there is a chance that the younger ones in particular will not be fobbed off with a few dollars. That they dream a completely different American Dream of self-determination.”

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