ALL PROSPECT COLUMNIST ILLUSTRATIONS BY NICK TAYLOR
In this festive season, I’ve been thinking about what not to mention around the family dinner table. Is everyone here vaccinated? Is it a Ye or a Ne for Kanye 2024? I know there are two words I’d be sure to avoid if I were at Elon Musk’s table: quiet quitters, or workers who secretly decide to stop going the extra mile. Not that you’ll find a single tweep quiet quitting after Musk fired half of Twitter’s workforce and banned the rest from working at home, telling them that “only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade” (see Ethan Zuckerman, p58).