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“The idea of a pension was not, and is not, extravagant. It's premised on the idea that some of the profits you help produce for a company should not go to stockholders, or the CEO, back back to longtime workers, who would continue to receive a portion of their salary even after they retire. In essence, the worker committed years of their life to making the company profitable; the company then commits some extra years of its profits to the employee.”
― Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

“The story of middle-class ascendancy is all about individual hard work. And no one wants to lose any of the hard-won benefits of that work, which helps explain the popularity of the Personal Responsibility Crusade amongst boomers and their parents. Members of the middle class were so freaked out by seeping economic instability that they started pulling the ladder up behind them.”
― Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

“The way that we live, the way that we're conditioned, the patriarchy, capitalist, white supremacy. Those systems are all designed to keep the masses knackered so that the chosen few at the top can be successful and can gain from our labor”
― Tamu Thomas, Women Who Work Too Much

“That's money, the substance that makes the world real. There's something so corrupt and sexy about it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People