TMC
09-06-2021, 06:36 PM
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When did work stop being funny -- or even fun? While the workplace drama has performed consistently well, the workplace comedy has a much more fickle history -- one that closely mirrors our evolving relationship to capitalism. Fundamentally, our willingness to spend twenty-two minutes joking around in someone else’s office has a lot to do with how we feel about our own jobs.
So how has the workplace comedy tracked the shift in the American economy, and what does it reveal about our feeling of being trapped like a cog in the capitalist machine?
When did work stop being funny -- or even fun? While the workplace drama has performed consistently well, the workplace comedy has a much more fickle history -- one that closely mirrors our evolving relationship to capitalism. Fundamentally, our willingness to spend twenty-two minutes joking around in someone else’s office has a lot to do with how we feel about our own jobs.
So how has the workplace comedy tracked the shift in the American economy, and what does it reveal about our feeling of being trapped like a cog in the capitalist machine?