Yeah, I'm well beyond my teenage years of thinking I'm the only one experiencing anything lol I know this is a broad issue. It's sad though. Fiat society, in my opinion, simply hasn't delivered what I was told it would if I worked and studied hard. It just hasn't. All I've ever gotten was more work and stress. In fact, the only time I have been rewarded is when it's something I control (buying Bitcoin early, freelance work, etc). If I work on anything, it'll absolutely be a passion project or another business. Fiat probably ruins most careers. And I do think this is a fiat problem. My health system switched from merit pay to standardized pay across the board because eQuItY. I've heard other people say they've given up on doing extra too. There's just no point anymore.
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There are certainly other issues. But at the lower levels, incentives don't exist anymore. The bare minimum is paid the same (or more of they've been around longer) than people like me. The average rating on the review from a manager I hardly ever see was the final straw. I'll be average and won't lose anything lol
More energy for family and myself.
Disincentive if anything. From 30k government handouts start to go away and you go backwards financially until well over 100k household income.
That drives everyone in that financial range, where most people are, into one of 2 patterns of thinking. Republican, I don't get anything so they shouldn't either spite. Unsustainable because we're all being robbed blind by inflation. Democrats, they get free shit so I should too. Unsustainable because it means more inflation to pay for it.
I was homeless and turning down work because it would make my unemployment go down more than it paid 20 years ago and it has only gotten worse since then.
It's warped incentives and unintended consequences all the way down to the rotten core.
Bingo.
Maybe a passion project or side hustle once I feel I've recovered from the burnout and abuse.
Absolutely
