Ah! Pricing the scared (interpersonal relations) again - today’s signal looks at the rise of “professional (adult) children” in China who are paid by their parents to, well, be their children. (Millennial failure to launchers have not nothing on the Gen Z grift in this regard!)
Or what really happens when “care work” gets commodified - mom doesn’t get paid, she pays her kids to pretend to love her…
Not unlike Gen Z girls bragging about being emotional hookers (selling themselves to go on platonic dates) - there are perhaps some things that can best be left out of late stage capitalism?
Or not?
What’s left to commodity after our nuclear families?
Read more:
Professional kids : https://www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna91813
The consumed generation : https://twitter.com/bronwynwilliams/status/1683221851193982976?s=46&t=4ZnlXYawVpFiG2SlapEWwg
How this relates to implicit and explicit reward and remuneration in the workplace? (Email me bronwyn@fluxtrends.co.za )
Professional parents / professional kids