This is bonkers. Expecting everyone to treat every minute of their employment as an active decision to exchange their work-seconds for dollars that can be cance

This is bonkers. Expecting everyone to treat every minute of their employment as an active decision to exchange their work-seconds for dollars that can be cancelled (and therefore optimized) at any time is some libertarian robo-dystopian nonsense. Even ignoring how horrible it would be to try to actually live like that, there is objectively significant overhead to job hunting for candidates, for employers and for society. Switching jobs is expensive on many levels.