I already have because I'm a good person. Can't speak for the other people here, though.
Anyways, I don't know if this is a question or just a gripe, but I genuinely don't understand how this "quiet quitting" thing has taken such root as an "issue" among the, well not even manager class, but the billionaire owner/majority investor class. I know I shouldn't be surprised they're all this obtuse and as someone who has worked in corporate America for the past 25 years I *do* believe that benefits and corporate culture matter to some extent, but how are these people THIS committed to the idea that "doing one's job adequately but not really more than that" is some sort of huge crisis? Anyways big fan long time listener I'll hang up and listen to your answer
Thanks Pete. My sense is the labor market is unusually tight and so employers are paranoid that workers are getting lazy since they finally have some options (relatively speaking)
Jan 20, 2023·edited Jan 21, 2023Liked by Ken Klippenstein
it could be this: see...."finance" works on "reflexivity" ( a fancy word for saying, that there is a 2 way loop between price and expectations, ie. prices are based on expectations, and expectations based on prices..."reflexivity"). And bringing up this "quiet quitting" meme on such large megaphones (I mean the number of outlets carrying this story FT, WSJ, NYT etc etc is ridiculous, and how do they MEASURE this phenomenon? LOL LOL LOL).....is a great way of massaging the publicks into losing their jobs. By repeating this mantra You set expectations as to: ehhh...the workers are sated on work, they really don't want it....no harm kicking them out. See what's going on? there are really NO hard fast numbers in financial markets, they are constantly changing based on latest predictions of "the future". Reflexivity. Set expectations. Propaganda. Reap the price. If you can do it smoothly, it all sets. If you don't do it smoothly, then it becomes a "failure" and the narrative setting fails along with the agenda the narrative was meant to serve (that's "bad" for the elites).
Nice juxtaposition of 'quiet quitting' and then two US senators high-fiving a rule that prevents them from doing meaningful work while still cashing checks... I guess they need to work on the "quiet" part!
Excellent synopsis. Thank you. I am baffled by the banal acceptance of war criminals on panels and in media by the general public. I get why the lackeys of empire obsequiously fawn over people like Kissinger.
I don’t understand why lackeys of empire fawn over Kissinger. He’s not the least bit repentant. I would bet he’d do it all over again given a chance. I seriously would appreciate some insight.
Just going by the general tone of these panels, they’re not the least bit concerned with Kissinger’s war crimes. Obviously, economic growth and wealth enrichment is the central animating factor. Otherwise, none of this stuff would be tolerated; instead, it’s the whole point. You watch, when (if) Kissinger (ever) dies, you will be hard-pressed to find any mainstream criticism of his record.
Why don’t They just make corporate slavery legal. Indentured servitude. Provide housing and food and healthcare. Free cable, internet and gym. Then every one should be happy. We can work till we die.
I notice you don't say what Kissinger said. He is wildly overrated as a font of wisdom that people are likely to overreact. Still, I am curious if K had anything interesting to say.
How long before Chat-GPT monitors employee engagement real time continuously? And who will sell that product? There are already people shilling for Chat GPT therapist bots (who needs to waste time on a real therapist?)
But when you write an article on the "Top 5 creepiest panels at Davos" without mentioning say, the panel with Tony Blair calling for centralized digital database to track who's taken what injections, it makes me think you're running cover for the authoritarian agenda. You're conspicuously ignoring the most insidious parts of the conference, dismissing them as tinfoil hat conspiracy.
Focus on Henry Kissinger and Quiet Quitting instead!! That's what really matters! Yea, sure.
Were they also discussing a digital central bank currency? With an end to paper currency, we can say good bye to any semblance of privacy in transactions. Could this be why decentralized digital currencies were undermined, bitcoin, or appropriated, ethereum? One sticking point to that motivation...how would the Davos crowd pay for their party favors?
When the Time Study guys at ALCOA came around with their clipboards & stopwatches, I'd immediately slow down 30%. My version of quiet quitting. Fuck 'em.
Also if these dumb idiots who have a bunch of paper money think they can stop onshoreism with media manipulation and stock trades they have some hard walls they are speeding towards lmao. Excited to watch them 💥 crash!!!
At the end of Dorian Gray, the picture is beautiful again and hanging above the now-hideous corpse of Dorian Gray himself. Therefore, the picture was not a good comparison for Kissinger's appearance, unless you thought he was "in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty". The picture is at its most hideous earlier in the final chapter.
Love the bit about Grandma having to go back to work. They might, just MIGHT have to fix the little problem of age discrimination in the workplace for that to happen. I'm in my fifties and have sent out hundreds of resumes and have only gotten two interviews in over 6 months. Grandma may WANT to work, but will anyone hire her?
I thought your comments on majority report were prescient, that a fanatical devotion to 2% inflation, somewhat disturbing as I read the front page of the WSJ today!
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I already have because I'm a good person. Can't speak for the other people here, though.
Anyways, I don't know if this is a question or just a gripe, but I genuinely don't understand how this "quiet quitting" thing has taken such root as an "issue" among the, well not even manager class, but the billionaire owner/majority investor class. I know I shouldn't be surprised they're all this obtuse and as someone who has worked in corporate America for the past 25 years I *do* believe that benefits and corporate culture matter to some extent, but how are these people THIS committed to the idea that "doing one's job adequately but not really more than that" is some sort of huge crisis? Anyways big fan long time listener I'll hang up and listen to your answer
Thanks Pete. My sense is the labor market is unusually tight and so employers are paranoid that workers are getting lazy since they finally have some options (relatively speaking)
it could be this: see...."finance" works on "reflexivity" ( a fancy word for saying, that there is a 2 way loop between price and expectations, ie. prices are based on expectations, and expectations based on prices..."reflexivity"). And bringing up this "quiet quitting" meme on such large megaphones (I mean the number of outlets carrying this story FT, WSJ, NYT etc etc is ridiculous, and how do they MEASURE this phenomenon? LOL LOL LOL).....is a great way of massaging the publicks into losing their jobs. By repeating this mantra You set expectations as to: ehhh...the workers are sated on work, they really don't want it....no harm kicking them out. See what's going on? there are really NO hard fast numbers in financial markets, they are constantly changing based on latest predictions of "the future". Reflexivity. Set expectations. Propaganda. Reap the price. If you can do it smoothly, it all sets. If you don't do it smoothly, then it becomes a "failure" and the narrative setting fails along with the agenda the narrative was meant to serve (that's "bad" for the elites).
great article man!
Thanks, Adam
Nice juxtaposition of 'quiet quitting' and then two US senators high-fiving a rule that prevents them from doing meaningful work while still cashing checks... I guess they need to work on the "quiet" part!
Good read.
Excellent synopsis. Thank you. I am baffled by the banal acceptance of war criminals on panels and in media by the general public. I get why the lackeys of empire obsequiously fawn over people like Kissinger.
I don’t understand why lackeys of empire fawn over Kissinger. He’s not the least bit repentant. I would bet he’d do it all over again given a chance. I seriously would appreciate some insight.
Just going by the general tone of these panels, they’re not the least bit concerned with Kissinger’s war crimes. Obviously, economic growth and wealth enrichment is the central animating factor. Otherwise, none of this stuff would be tolerated; instead, it’s the whole point. You watch, when (if) Kissinger (ever) dies, you will be hard-pressed to find any mainstream criticism of his record.
Glad you found it helpful, Jennie
Why don’t They just make corporate slavery legal. Indentured servitude. Provide housing and food and healthcare. Free cable, internet and gym. Then every one should be happy. We can work till we die.
They’re working on it !
I notice you don't say what Kissinger said. He is wildly overrated as a font of wisdom that people are likely to overreact. Still, I am curious if K had anything interesting to say.
Where is the sanity....the protectors of the 1%ers are psychopaths.
LOL: Harvard, i think, would like to see zelensky on Mount Rushmore:
Here showing Kennedy School Director Paul Peterson's thoughts:
https://ibb.co/PmBksXJ
https://ibb.co/vJRGSHV
How long before Chat-GPT monitors employee engagement real time continuously? And who will sell that product? There are already people shilling for Chat GPT therapist bots (who needs to waste time on a real therapist?)
https://every.to/chain-of-thought/can-gpt-3-explain-my-past-and-tell-me-my-future#
"conducting hourlong, open-ended meetings with no agenda" ???
This sounds like it's straight out of that declassified 1944 sabotage manual!!!
Did they also recommend "complain against ersatz materials” and “bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible”?
Who needs quiet quitting when you can create loud learned helplessness in your firm?
> No, Davos is not a secret plan to raise a stadium of babies in Matrix-style incubator pods
Easy to dismiss concerns about WEF cabal: by building a strawman and making it seem like schizo tinfoil hat stuff. Classic.
I am old enough to remember when liberals stood against the elite globalist class, rather than running cover for them
The whole article is critical of Davos' agenda!
Nominally.
But when you write an article on the "Top 5 creepiest panels at Davos" without mentioning say, the panel with Tony Blair calling for centralized digital database to track who's taken what injections, it makes me think you're running cover for the authoritarian agenda. You're conspicuously ignoring the most insidious parts of the conference, dismissing them as tinfoil hat conspiracy.
Focus on Henry Kissinger and Quiet Quitting instead!! That's what really matters! Yea, sure.
Edit: Ohhhhhh I get it now: https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1436185671912370183
Man you might wanna look into antipsychotics
A couple of years old, but a perfect analysis of Davis https://youtu.be/GeykREAlYSg
Sorry, got to the point where he called Davos a "hard core leftist" thing and laughed so hard I closed the tab.
Were they also discussing a digital central bank currency? With an end to paper currency, we can say good bye to any semblance of privacy in transactions. Could this be why decentralized digital currencies were undermined, bitcoin, or appropriated, ethereum? One sticking point to that motivation...how would the Davos crowd pay for their party favors?
I felt visceral disgust reading this. Thanks for enduring all of that conference so we don't have to.
When the Time Study guys at ALCOA came around with their clipboards & stopwatches, I'd immediately slow down 30%. My version of quiet quitting. Fuck 'em.
Also if these dumb idiots who have a bunch of paper money think they can stop onshoreism with media manipulation and stock trades they have some hard walls they are speeding towards lmao. Excited to watch them 💥 crash!!!
Spoiler alert for an 1891 novel:
At the end of Dorian Gray, the picture is beautiful again and hanging above the now-hideous corpse of Dorian Gray himself. Therefore, the picture was not a good comparison for Kissinger's appearance, unless you thought he was "in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty". The picture is at its most hideous earlier in the final chapter.
Love the bit about Grandma having to go back to work. They might, just MIGHT have to fix the little problem of age discrimination in the workplace for that to happen. I'm in my fifties and have sent out hundreds of resumes and have only gotten two interviews in over 6 months. Grandma may WANT to work, but will anyone hire her?
I thought your comments on majority report were prescient, that a fanatical devotion to 2% inflation, somewhat disturbing as I read the front page of the WSJ today!