Los Angeles Review of Books
LONG BEFORE “quiet quitting” entered the lexicon, Henry David Thoreau concluded from the shore of Walden Pond that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” His contemporaries’ desperation was but another word for their resignation: not resignation from a life of unhappy, meaningless work…
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