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The word is there to create a catchy headline. The article very much goes into the why: * Many jobs provide poor opportunities for advancement if desired. * Many jobs provide poor compensation relative to cost of living. * Many jobs lack stability, either in pay, hours, or continued employment. * Many jobs provide limited agency to improve working conditions or business practices. The last one is something that even I, a holder of a cushy tech job, grapple with. Most of my job is fine, but it's painful to deal with boneheaded and poorly thought out management decisions that management neither cares to justify nor is willing to accept feedback on. There's a lot of "I'm in charge, so we're doing it my way, which I know is perfect because I decided it was" in American corporate culture, with little avenue to course-correct, as the most frequent response seems to be retaliation for bruising someone's ego.