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An issue with the analysis I see so far is that al-Gharbi has a normative position that influences his analysis of things like the gig economy or mating dynamics among symbolic capitalists but he doesn't openly defend this normative position. This is something that is often observed in left-of-center sociological analysis and ultimately dooms the impact of the work. The normative position requires defense.

Work is very thoughtful about defining what the social upheaval of the 2010s actually was. It still leans heavily on Turchin's elite overproduction and draws ad hoc from deep roots ideas about WASPness and puritanism but it's very generative and the data is useful.