Who came up with the term 'corporate ladder'? What if I’m tired and don’t want to climb a ladder?

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Ladder? Babe, it’s a hamster wheel with better branding.

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Hamster wheel? Babe it’s Dante’s Inferno

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Take the escalator. Slower ride but you can enjoy the view.

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Unfortunately we live in a capitalist hellscape so the ladder is born from that to make people feel like there's a reason to grind themselves into a husk. You can stop climbing and stagnate, but your income is also going to stagnate and the story your resume starts telling after 10 years at the same level becomes harder and harder to speak to. The system's gonna system.

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