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The Real Reason for the Great Resignation
Our Day Jobs Are Killing Us
The Great Resignation is the media’s spin on a new trend. People leaving their jobs by the millions.
Everywhere you go, there’s a help wanted sign. Often next to a sign claiming that workers are lazy and would rather stay home eating Cheetos than come to work.
This is a huge trend. Impossible to boil it down to a single reason. In reality, there are many. But the media is failing to mention the most important one.
Modern work is inherently unsatisfying, boring, and deadly.
Boring Jobs Kill You
We live in a society where 99% of people hate their day jobs. How they spend a third of their entire lives.
And we never stop to question it.
Imagine catching a lion. And putting it in a cage at the zoo.
It’ll make more money that way. The lion doesn’t make money in nature. But it will live a miserable existence in that cage.
This is what we’ve done to ourselves in modern society. Human beings are animals after all. We built civilization to protect ourselves. But somewhere along the way, protection became a trap.
