People stopped
wanting to work in 2019 BCE, or earlier. What's happening now, is that more people are
talking about it again but the actual desire to work is a mutable semi-constant fact of life.
So to be less facetious, why do you think this is really a modern phenomenon? I think its been a thing for a long, long time. Across industrial sectors, and social constructs.
If you really want to leave this in the domain of IT, sure. In recent times, people were more willing to work obscene hours, for illusory vesting options they saw precursor people get, ignoring the long history (or urban myth) of Microsoft early employees who walked around the campus with "Fuck you I'm fully vested" tee shirts. Lets be clear, the current state of pay in FAANG is not what it was. It may not come back. Don't build your hopes on somebody else's prior achievement in work/life balance.
People's sense of values were out of whack. A younger cohort is living through the kind of disruptive cost of living inflation which some of us saw in the 1970s oil shock, and wondering if it's all worth it.
"They shoot horses, don't they" is about the 1935 dance marathon thing. "Death of a Salesman" is from 1949. The 1943 zoot suit riots in LA are written down to racism and youth disaffection but it too has a dimension which plays to "what are we working for, anyway"
Sorry, I know its a bit of a put down to focus on "what, you think this is new?" but really: why do you think this is new?
So to be less facetious, why do you think this is really a modern phenomenon? I think its been a thing for a long, long time. Across industrial sectors, and social constructs.
If you really want to leave this in the domain of IT, sure. In recent times, people were more willing to work obscene hours, for illusory vesting options they saw precursor people get, ignoring the long history (or urban myth) of Microsoft early employees who walked around the campus with "Fuck you I'm fully vested" tee shirts. Lets be clear, the current state of pay in FAANG is not what it was. It may not come back. Don't build your hopes on somebody else's prior achievement in work/life balance.
People's sense of values were out of whack. A younger cohort is living through the kind of disruptive cost of living inflation which some of us saw in the 1970s oil shock, and wondering if it's all worth it.
"They shoot horses, don't they" is about the 1935 dance marathon thing. "Death of a Salesman" is from 1949. The 1943 zoot suit riots in LA are written down to racism and youth disaffection but it too has a dimension which plays to "what are we working for, anyway"
Sorry, I know its a bit of a put down to focus on "what, you think this is new?" but really: why do you think this is new?