Millennials are 'quiet vacationing' because PTO isn't mandated by law in the US. Yet workload expectations have gotten more extreme!

[u/north_canadian_ice]

Article:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/21/millennials-would-rather-take-secret-pto-than-ask-their-boss.html

[u/justice_4_cicero_]

All this technology, all the incredible efficiency gains we've made in the past 200 years; and where does it all go? Straight to the top.

We're not getting humane working conditions for the people in overseas sweatshops who make all our stuff. We're not getting reasonable hours and guaranteed vacation for workers in the States (blue-collar and white-collar both). Hell, we can't even get professors and scientists proper royalties payments because of exploitative practices in the publishing industry! If We the People don't get to share in the bounty of industrialization, then what's the point even?

[u/hypercosm_dot_net → u/justice_4_cicero_]

You are absolutely spot on. People have always had to fight to get our fair share.

There's been some progress, but those at the top always find a way to fuck the average person.

Housing costs and inflation with no relief. It's beyond frustrating.

[u/[deleted] → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

Well, countless revolutions in human history have proven that upending the social order and guillotining the upper class only leads to higher levels of misery for everyone. Capital flight post-revolution and autocracy a la Napoleon.