How Technology led to a Generation of Quiet Quitting
…and why that’s not a bad thing
There have always been stories of technology taking over the world and eradicating humanity. From “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep” to “The Matrix", and let’s not forget everyone’s favorite cyber dystopia, Terminator.
Stories and fear spread…of machines that we create, and that eventually find us (it’s creators) as inferior beings. Or worse, as toxic to ourselves and the planet, and take us out.
In more realistic renditions, we see the rapids growth of automation and integration. So connected to our devices that disconnecting from them is seen as a special and rare case. And, across all professions, you hear the conversation of “Machines taking our jobs"¹²³. Of humans being left behind to do nothing in a world that no longer requires our labor to maintain. But looking at that last sentence, you would think “a world that can maintain itself? Why wouldn’t that be a good thing?”.
Well, there’s many reasons, but I think, at least for Americans, that we don’t know much else. In our Capitalist Western World, we are taught that we are only worth as much as we can do. We much work to provide for ourselves and others. It is so deeply ingrained in our society that we rank each other, consciousnessly or not, by where we work, how…
