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A staggering percentage of the workforce acknowledges their role is entirely meaningless. Coined by anthropologists, this phenomenon highlights how massive…
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Dividing life equally into work, rest, and personal time used to be considered dangerous extremist propaganda. Before it became the standard corporate grind,…
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The independent labor economy used to involve substantially more bloodshed. The term was coined in the nineteenth century to describe medieval mercenaries who…
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Emotional labor is the exhausting invisible work of managing your feelings to appease unreasonable people. Suppressing your natural urge to yell at obnoxious…
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While framed purely as a massive leap for civil rights, it was also the greatest gift imaginable to industrial employers. Instantly doubling the pool of…
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Imagine pulling on a thread in a sweater and watching the whole thing unravel—that’s what happens if migrant labor disappears. Orchards wouldn’t be harvested,…
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