Yves here. With the prospects for groaf uncertain, even before getting to the question of planetary degradation, Gen Z members not being sufficiently deferential in workplaces may not be surprising. But their openness is. We do live in a society where for most, selling your labor is a condition for survival. Has Covid and boomers retiring sufficiently thinned the workforce that they have the leverage to reset the terms of their employment on a widespread basis, as happened after the Black Plague? Now having said that, the on-call norm that started with spread of cell phones and the Internet is unreasonable and unhealthy. If wide spread Gen Z distaste for an extreme competition/workplace focus game roll only that back, it would amount to a big and salutary change.

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