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		swagasaurus-rex on Oct 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quiet Quitting Why work hard when no amount of work can afford you a home? This is the reality for all my friends who haven't gotten into tech, medicine, law, or found some other way to work a desk job for a corporation.

Moissanite on Oct 10, 2022 [–]

Exactly. Even for people in those high prestige, high income fields the link between hard work and success is often negligible. Rent-seekers have taken too much, and we need fundamental structural change.

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