the very notion that is being sold to us is that, under capitalism:
- everyone can find their “dream job”, as long as they look hard enough and work hard enough for it
- company mergers are “fun and exciting journeys” (paraphrasing linkedin posts i've been scrolling)
- everyone needs a “career” where infinite growth is the goal and you should get promoted indefinitely until you reach CEO status or some highly-specialized skill position; having the same position for decades is seen as lazy, suspicious and untoward.
- to the highest possible extent, work should be the sole focus and purpose in your life
- paraphrasing a linkedin post from some HR person: “i took a course in [whatever] and my view of company and family as separate things has started to dissolve”
- those who cannot work because of physical/mental disability deserve nothing but scraps (disability pensions often keep you in poverty, or they keep you housed and fed with nothing else to do because everything costs money)
- mentally ill people should shut the fuck up and stop complaining, keep their head down and just keep working
also, i just saw a comment on youtube the other week where someone said (paraphrasing): “i've been to jail. work is basically like super freedom jail. the only difference is you get to choose your jailer”.
yeah, i just lost my job 3 weeks ago and i'm scrolling linkedin looking for a new job and i've been bombarded with this concentrated essence of capitalism for the past few weeks just scrolling the linkedin feed and seeing all these disgusting hustle culture posts and facepalm-inducing adverts from companies.