So if the workplace-industrial complex is hurting workers, managers, and companies, why does it have such a firm grip on our working lives? Because if you start to pick at the status quo, then our whole relationship to work starts to fall apart. If we start to accept that it's silly to force people to work in an office, you have to consider that we've all wasted hundreds of hours commuting for no good reason.
The workplace-industrial complex exists — deliberately or otherwise — as a form of control. By not directly asking bosses to justify their half-baked ideas, by blindly agreeing that concepts like quiet quitting are valid, by immediately switching to the perspective that the worker is always trying to get one over on the boss, they are speaking the truth that those in power want to read.
Not Ironic article to write at all