Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Meet the women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism and burnout

Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Meet the women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism and burnout

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
      39·
      9 months ago

      It’s multi-pronged:

      • why put in effort for companies that will run you into the ground to save a fraction of a %, give you “raises” that don’t even cover inflation and never adjust to market rates, or will fire you at will?
      • why work hard when the social contract has been severed; when the entire system is designed to funnel wealth to the richest, and return the working class to a feudalist underclass of renters.
      • why save for a future family when you can’t ever have housing or economic security, and the system is hellbent on maintaining the status quo despite the fact it may create a lifetime of famine, war, and suffering for the children we already can’t afford.
      • stoly@lemmy.world
        18·
        9 months ago

        why work hard when the social contract has been severed;

        There never was this. We had strong unions from the 1930s until the late 1970s. Since then, it’s been non-stop capitalism fests.

        • Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world
          81·
          9 months ago

          That’s because the job wasn’t finished. People thought we could negotiate with capitalists.

          Sure you can get a peace deal, just like you can get one with putin. The 1% kept soaking up the stolen surplus labor value, and have used that power and wealth to take us right back to the gilded age. when the time comes, no reforms… just a new way of life. We tried reforms yall. It did not work

    • CancerMancer
      1·
      9 months ago

      They used to dangle a carrot that only some could reach and at least that hope kept people striving, but now they’re not even pretending there is a carrot. In fact it seems the overlords have taken the masks off entirely and just outright say shit like they’re increasing the interest rates to suppress wages. Bank of Canada actually said that, I couldn’t believe how open they were about it and how few among the media reported it.