"Marriage, kids, houses, who can afford them? "

Bitcoin fixes this

I guess it all comes down to either fulfill your sense of purpose through work or not. I've seen different degrees of employee engagement and I don't think either of them is wrong. From people that pretty much live to work and 75% of their lives revolve around their job, people that does a little bit more of what they're paid for and the ones that do the job description checklist only according to the salary they were offered. I'm in the last group of these, not because I like being ordinary in the work environment, but because I've found and accepted that corporations do not practice meritocracy and everyone, from the CEO to the smallest paycheck share one common goal only: produce value for the shareholders, regardless of everything else. So, a job for me is merely a way to produce income while my personal purpose lays everywhere else but there. I do what's necessary and no more.

If you believe your work align with your personal morals and gives you a sense of purpose (government or private) you won’t do this. I always leave work thinking damn I could do so much more if I had X.

I think most people set out to be something great like a doctor or lawyer then due to life end up working at A bank or insurance company no motivation to achieve more just collect pay and go home. Thus the quiet quitting

It's only really possible if you aren't being micromanaged.

If possible, I advocate this for anyone in any kind of government work, but to be honest based on my own experience of government work most people already do this anyway because the incentive structures are fucked and no one really cares since the business isn't on the line based on performance either.

If you're private sector then you need to assess how reasonable the management are in terms of their expectations of your relative to compensation they provide.

You don't quit when you have kids to feed. Never!