I wrote about the Covid Great Resignation. A lot is about policy, and lack of childcare in particular. A lot is about exploitation, including low pay and demands of physical risk.
But some of it is existential: People asking, how do I want to live?
jill.substack.com/p/how-do-you-w…
But some of it is existential: People asking, how do I want to live?
jill.substack.com/p/how-do-you-w…
Where I diverge from a lot of people who share my politics is that I think most people want to work, and that work is good for most people - unlimited leisure and pleasure time is actually not the key to a happy life. But work doesn't have to be like it is in the US.
For so many workers, work means surveillance, monitoring, and being managed -- treated like an idiot, as untrustworthy, as an automaton. That's degrading, and Covid seems to have only accelerated this absurd management style.
Most of us spent the last year and a half living some changed version of our previous lives -- some of it for the better (less busy), some for the worse (isolated or overwhelmed). Most of us feared for our health & our loved ones. 700,000 people in the US alone have died.
Now that life feels like something closer to normal or at least familiar -- a new abnormal? -- it makes sense that many of us are asking these bigger questions about whether this is what we actually want. And not just those in positions of extreme privilege.
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