There were people who wouldn't put up with the absurdities of office "culture" before universal remote work. They'd end up going into academia or entrepreneursh

There were people who wouldn't put up with the absurdities of office "culture" before universal remote work. They'd end up going into academia or entrepreneurship. My guess is Zoomers are less willing to tolerate this because they didn't "get used to it" in the pre-2020 world when nobody else was questioning it publicly and those who did question it would be gaslit into thinking the insanity was normal. They see a critical mass of older people rejecting these ridiculous norms and that removes the fear of saying what they actually think and the ability of those who've given up hope of anything better to just shut their questions down.