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They came up with a new word for “working multiple jobs to survive” (www.forbes.com)

submitted 1 week ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 days ago

46% of workers are career minmaxing on their sigma grindset

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 days ago

Who does Forbes imagine it is talking to, and are they people who actually read Forbes?

Is this to be read by the people who hire contract/gig workers, and are they supposed to read it in a vicarious way, where they imagine themselves as a gig worker reading the article?

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’d rather have one job and hobbies, thanks.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 days ago

It's so very selfish of you to not devote every second of your waking life towards generating profit for our beloved oligarchs.

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Is this an effort to try to reach out to the Liberals using alternative-family adjacent words?

"I'm poly" might just mean something very different in the future...