The Quiet Quitting Movement: A Countermovement to the Capitalist Trap

Gen Z seemed to face a collective reckoning in the first couple years of their working lives. The quiet quitting counter-argument seems to suggest that hustle culture is an endless ladder, and if you've been tricked into climbing it, you have already lost. Wealth inequality in the 2010s in the United States has surpassed that of the Gilded Age.

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As a society, we now pit "anti-work" against "grindset mentality"—but we might actually be in a stage of self-defeating overcorrections at this point, including questionable trends like TradLife and Stay at Home Girlfriend Tok.

In this week's episode, we cover the pros and cons of both hustle culture and quiet quitting, how employee stock ownership programs might help, and what a better balance between the two might be.

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Mentioned in the Episode

Range by David Epstein: https://bookshop.org/a/90396/9780735214507
"The Secret to Conventional Success We Don't Talk About": https://moneywithkatie.com/blog/conventional-success-secrets
"On Meaningless Careers" by Jack Raines: https://www.youngmoney.co/p/meaningless-careers
"Gen Z Does Not Dream of Labor" from Vox: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22977663/gen-z-antiwork-capitalism
Wealth inequality in the 2010s: https://news.yahoo.com/super-richs-wealth-concentration-surpasses-gilded-age-levels-210802327.html
Laura Pitcher in Vice: https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/93a3we/slow-living-tiktok-trend
Zoe Hu in Dissent Magazine: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-agoraphobic-fantasy-of-tradlife
Chelsea Fagan on "Quiet Quitting": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh9CRz2dk-Q&ab_channel=TheFinancialDiet
Haley Nahman on Not Caring About Your Work: https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/145-not-caring-about-your-job-freedom
Kim Jordan of New Belgium Brewing and their employee stock ownership program: https://www.inc.com/magazine/202009/graham-winfrey/new-belgium-brewing-kim-jordan-esop-b-corp-acquisition-exit.html