This post is a response to a question initially posed on Quora, and can also be accessed via “https://www.quora.com/Nowadays-is-it-harder-to-get-work-than-it-used-to-be/answer/Antonio-Amaral-1“

Yes, because the entire market and the processes for hiring have been dumbed down to a series of checkboxes applied to humans in ways that devalue their experience and expertise to meet psychopathic parameters, allowing hiring personnel to envision unicorns while fixated on checkboxes and ignoring the human beings they’re evaluating for roles they don’t understand or care about.

No one seems willing or capable of hiring humans since they prefer hiring aesthetic packages they expect will meet the minimum requirements to function like a robot without agency or capacity for judgments outside parameters established by misanthropes with money who have no clue what they’re looking for and have no respect for what individuals are capable of offering.

Fewer and fewer people are willing to tolerate life as a robot, even if it means food insecurity, because at the end of one’s life, existence is not enough, and to destroy the ineffable character of one’s life to submit to a role to discover at the end of all that effort that rewards are less than meagre is just not worth perpetuating a parasitic system.

This is why “quiet quitting” has become a thing. This is why people are complaining that no one wants to work.

Of course, no one wants to “work” — sublimate themselves to a robotic existence that dehumanizes everything about them to maintain an unfulfilling and crushing existence.

People would otherwise throw themselves into their work if it brought them the value it promises.

Decades of these bait-and-switch manipulations of people can only naturally result in the wholesale rejection of a corrupt paradigm.

Capitalists should have taken more time to consider the benefits of destroying a working class that worked to elevate their lifestyles into the stratosphere before cutting them down to find themselves plummeting to their doom. They’re just getting what they wanted without realizing they didn’t want what they thought they wanted.