We spend one-third of our lives working. For a long time, popular media pretended we spent that time doing anything else—fighting dragons, falling in love in Paris, solving murders. Today, the industry has realized that the most relatable horror show isn't set in a haunted house; it is set in an open-plan office with bad air conditioning and a broken printer.
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Popular media provides a sanitized, high-stakes version of labor where effort directly correlates to outcome—something the modern worker has been starved of. We spend one-third of our lives working