I can't believe we've gotten to a stage of capitalism that saying "Employees need work-life balance" is controversial.

it was always controversial. that's why people say it as a dog whistle to self-select

turns out life, human living is a fight for your right to parteeehhh

now some companies without work life balance might be pretending they have it i'd bet though, since virtue signalling and gaslighting you is in

Jestie's right. It was always controversial. Like come on we used to have child labour, slavery still exist in some form or another, the point of employment as an institution is that you rent out part of your life coz you got no choice. It comes down to power struggle.

@jestdotty and @antigermgerm mentioned the controversy between employees and employers. That indeed is quite the fuss.

But for some stupid reasons (people, mostly stupid people. Those are the reasons), fellow non-billionaires will say stupid shit like "rise and grind!" Or "Keep hustling!".
Those are sycophants so desperate for a wink of approval from their masters that they would sabotage their own best interest. They make things like "we should be better paid and have more time off" controversial among employees.

I am actually ancap

not into communism

economics makes sense to me

it's not controversy between employer and employee. it's game theory.

communism is a set of tactics to usurp power from somebody else (and then stealing all their shit, if you think they're friends of yours you will be sorely mistaken). generally by creating strife where there isn't any. when you play a video game or board game you don't ditch your friends just cuz they got a different outcome than you. the communists want to tell your spirit to be mad about every day normal things, for your vibrational frequencies to be low how those woo-woo circles put it (or put you into an irrational emotional state of mind so it short-circuits your prefrontal cortex and gives you literal brain rot in the science circles)

a lot of things in life have a game-theory tension and that's what makes them good. like two comedians riffing off each other's jokes, they each make the other better by playing a tug of war. it's flirting