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“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

“Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can´t we be honest about them? Especially moms. They´re the most romanticized of anyone.”
― Jenette McCurdy

“Workaholics turn vacations into work, too. We've also seen how the time around vacations becomes especially important to workaholics, who become consumed with the idea that they have to work harder before and after to make up for the time off”
― Malissa Clark, Never Not Working: Why the Always-On Culture Is Bad for Business--and How to Fix It

“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