What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working. ( www.cnbc.com )

SirStumps , 8 months ago

This honestly sounds like propaganda trying to convince people this is a thing.

Scew , 8 months ago

news is profit driven, so it literally always has someone’s agenda behind it… (e.g. always propaganda) this appears to be corporate flavored

SirStumps , 8 months ago

You definitely have a point which is why I try to avoid it most days.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

news is profit driven

Watch the PBS News Hour show.

It’s also available on YouTube.

Speaking of YouTube, ‘Breaking Points’ is also a really good channel to watch for news.

SirStumps , 8 months ago

Wow. I’ll look into it. Ty

ApathyTree , 8 months ago

Like “quiet quitting”, which is, in reality, just doing your job and not going above and beyond because it doesn’t benefit you…

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

This honestly sounds like propaganda trying to convince people this is a thing.

IMO it’s exactly that. They hardly bring up any other external influences on people’s income in the article, just a paragraph or two very deep in the article.

It insinuates really hard that people have the money to spend but just don’t want to spend, a subtle “killing the messenger” of people being lazy and greedy.

Anticorp , 8 months ago

It is, and what’s unfortunate is that on a long enough timeline, it works.

rwhitisissle , 8 months ago

This is some straight up Manufacturing Consent shit that’s designed to make you think being poor and working until you fucking die on the assembly line and have to have your corpse dragged into the dogfood machine by the other wage slaves was your idea.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

This is some straight up Manufacturing Consent shit

This message is being projected to the leaders of Capitalism, not the workers. It’s being said to the wrong audience.

If so, it seems like it’s a wasted effort.

rwhitisissle , 8 months ago

The leaders of capitalism are just “capitalists.” And they don’t read CNBC. This is an article written for middle-class office drones, because it’s one of the few websites that isn’t blocked by the company firewall that has something approximating entertainment on it.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

The leaders of capitalism are just “capitalists.”

By the leaders of capitalism one could mean the CEOs and/or upper management, the c-suite, etc.

And they don’t read CNBC.

They sure watch it though, as well as the Sunday morning shows.

This is an article written for middle-class office drones, because it’s one of the few websites that isn’t blocked by the company firewall that has something approximating entertainment on it.

They’re usually too busy to watch videos on their web browser at work because they are trying to keep the place from burning down project wise, but sure, it could be for them as well.