In the PODCAST episode “Click – The Turning Point” of this week, we come back to “The Great Resignation”: all these workers who decided to leave their jobs because they no longer found meaning in them, because they felt they were receiving too little in return for what they invested in their work. But we are also interested in those – many – who do not have the means to resign, for whom this question does not even appear to be a possibility.
It is the Psychologist Vincent Yzerbyt (UCLouvain) who draws attention to this issue, which is increasingly worrying in his eyes: “Not all sections of the population have the leisure to ask themselves the question of a change of job, a change of professional course… when the job no longer makes sense. For some people, the question “what is the meaning I want to give to my existence? “is a super luxurious question actually! The important question is how am I going to manage to make ends meet”. And he adds: You don’t ask yourself the same questions regarding the meaning of your life in an opulent house in Walloon Brabant as in a cramped apartment in Molenbeek“.
The professor of social psychology fears more and more and on a whole series of subjects there is “a segregation, a dualisation which is becoming an increasingly worrying problem for our ability to form a society. Some say that we are in the same storm but not in the same boat anymore… but if we are not in the same boat anymore, it is very difficult to find the right shore all together”. For Vincent Yzerbyt, it is absolutely necessary to renew the link “reduce the level of inequality between the different segments of the population and reweave a collective discourse to face the major challenges looming before us and which go far beyond the energy crisis…”
To go further on these issues, discover many other analyzes and testimonials, take the time to listen the 45 minutes of “Déclic – Le Tournant” your podcast devoted to major societal issues on the turning points that are looming before us
