‘Quiet quitting?’ Everything about this so-called trend is nonsense | Tayo Bero

The term suggests a norm where people do more work than they're paid for. And guess who's most likely to do that?

When Kim Kardashian said it seems like no one wants to work any more, she hit a raw nerve. That's because people are working. And for the last several years we've had to work through a deadly pandemic, a bad economy, the decimation of our civil liberties and the slow collapse of democracy.

What is happening is that tired, overworked, burnt-out working-class people are taking back their agency and refusing jobs and working conditions that are unsuitable for us.

Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist