Engagement and disengagement are effectively separate forms of labor expected of an employee, though, and they're virtually never formally codified. If I'm a coder and my job is to write code, don't expect me to be enthused about writing terrible medical billing software. Enthusiasm and engagement are emotional labor, which I'm not compensated for, and which, to some extent, you can't realistically expect me to demonstrate. I'm not able to "be engaged" beyond performing my tasks and whatever technical or administrative duties I've been assigned. Expecting me to contribute in a way orthogonal to that requires my job to be fundamentally different from what it actually is.
Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations....
Additionally, inflation makes it harder for people to cover their expenses or save, Koehler said.
I feel like this is the most significant piece of information in the entire article and it just skims over it. People aren’t failing to save because of lifestyle choices. They’re failing to save because groceries for 1 person costs like 200 bucks a week in some cities. Shit is more expensive than ever before, and things like home ownership, which is historically THE default hedge against inflation, is outside the grasp of pretty much anyone below 40 who isn’t a doctor or working in a similarly lucrative field.
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.
It’s like a version of The Whale where he doesn’t have a daughter and isn’t depressed from his gay lover dying, but just depressed because of general socioeconomic conditions and the overall shitty state of the world.
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.
What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? ( i.redd.it )
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 )
Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations....