[maiar]

This is a fancy word for “being human in a hostile and duplicitous world.”

There is a real cognitive cost to knowing everything is invalid but being disallowed to say it is this because then one is contributing to “a morale problem.” The weight of all the emotional labor is why most people can’t climb the corporate ladder, as the intellectual demands of office work are basically zero. Normally it is only autistic people who struggle with this cognitive dissonance on a daily basis, but since 2020 it has been basically everyone. The fact that our world is run by terrible people who will probably not go away until removed violently is one of those things no one can talk about, but everyone knows.

[wakawaka28]

>The weight of all the emotional labor is why most people can’t climb the corporate ladder, as the intellectual demands of office work are basically zero.

I'm getting strong Ignatius J. Reilly vibes here. Most people can't climb the corporate ladder because there is no room for everybody to be promoted like that. Getting promoted is an inherently hard problem.

>The fact that our world is run by terrible people who will probably not go away until removed violently is one of those things no one can talk about, but everyone knows.

Be careful what you wish for. The people doing any kind of violent removal probably won't be benevolent either, and are likely to be less competent than the people they're replacing.

[AnimalMuppet]

Well, they'll be more competent at violently removing people. At building a better society afterward... not so much.

[maiar]

Two things can be true. Most people don’t climb the corporate ladder because there are a limited number of spots, that’s true, and it is also true for most people that the reason they won’t make it is that they’re not good enough at emotional labor.

[wakawaka28]

Sorry, I don't think "emotional labor" is what holds people back. It is the actual labor or quality thereof. "Emotional labor" is a made up thing to distract from the burden of true labor.