Oscar Wilde’s assumption that life imitates art might need a rethink. Right now, it looks like the other way around. When it comes to work, popular culture is reflecting back what life is like.
Oscar Wilde’s assumption that life imitates art might need a rethink. Right now, it looks like the other way around.
Margot Robbie in Barbie: By popular consensus, the dominant colour is dopamine dressing pink, but is it really?Let’s start with Barbie, this year’s blockbuster movie. By popular consensus, the dominant colour ispink, but I actually see grey. For me, the most memorable scene is when Barbie hurtles through a grim, gunmetal set of office cubicles trying to evade dastardly corporate executives who want to put her, quite literally, back in her box.
Away from the office, contemporary fiction also serves up compelling drama about a very different work experience. Init’s Walmart and the cold realities of shelf-stacking in supermarkets - monotonous, low-paid work - which feature in the lives of characters in a coal mining community, which has fallen victim to economic hard times and America’s opioid crisis.
, a sci-fi book set on a spaceship “some time in the future,” in which “someone touched me on the shoulder and I saw that it was a humanoid co-worker.”
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