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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have no control over your work or work environment. You do not understand why things are done the way they are. There is no belonging to anything other than a paycheck and sad trombone pizza parties. You are not growing from your work to reach your potential, or aren't being actively developed or grown. Your uniqueness is not recognized, you are a serial number.

The great news is, we've added menial cost mental health EAP to gaslight you as if any human could succeed in the framework above.

[–] ZzyzxRoad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was this one guy who wrote whole books on this kind of stuff. He called this "alienation" and was trying to warn us about it all the way back in like the 1860s.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You talking about Durkheim and "anomie"? If so, yes the concepts since the beginning of industrialization haven't changed, unregulated capitalism has only exacerbated the core issues of humans not having evolved to work the way companies want to operate.