There’s a fundamental disconnect between how hard it is to relocate and how easy it is to lose your job.
The cost of moving is huge: uprooting your family, switching the kids’ school, losing your friends and local interests, re-learning a new community, getting grief from your mortgage lender or insurer, paying early termination fees on rent and services, legal fees and taxes, packing and unpacking your stuff, loading up on new risks…
Whereas your job can end at the whim of a boss or the slightest gust of economic headwind.
That and whoever had a mortgage before 2022 is not looking to go from 2-4% to 7% at the same high prices.
Politicians and big business really fucked us with the whole money printer thing.
Enjoy the quiet.
I use to fill up my day with listening to podcasts during all non-work time (e.g. driving in the car, exercising, even showering).
It overloads your brain if it's having to process info during every waking moment.
You brain just needs quiet time to think, relax and explore.
I'm way more relaxed, creative and find unique solutions to problems now, than before.
Corporatism is not a random emergent thing. Occupational psychology goes back 100 years, and behavioral economics almost as long.
It’s all melodrama over the end of literal reality if we don’t burn ourselves out though.