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
    36·
    7 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
      16·
      7 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
        71·
        7 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. They’re back, and when the time comes, no reforms… just a new way of life. We tried reforms yall. It did not work