CNBC even says that millennials "have found workarounds to play hooky," an infantilizing analogy that places millennials as schoolchildren that ought to be disciplined, not adults in their thirties, as I am.
This analogy also misses the most important distinction: School (with its many problems) ostensibly exists for the benefit of children, whereas companies exist for the benefit of shareholders, at the expense of labor.
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