Fewer people are working than almost any other time in U.S. history. Call it what you will – quiet quitting, lying flat, the Great Resignation, or just plain old don’t wanna’ go back to work. Only a few years ago, the world was awash in life-after-the-pandemic predictions, as humans faced, in the words of one religious leader, “the fragility and vulnerability of the human situation.” There were prognostications of rampant misinformation, political uprisings and mass reclusion, none of them wrong.