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Most of these seven words are recent names for old practices. Quiet quitting and quiet firing came into wide use in 2022, career cushioning from late 2022 into 2023, and boreout, it is thought, from two books in 2007 and 2008. The word presenteeism is older, first recorded in 1930–35. The research behind them ranges from one firm's surveys to studies that disagree.
Words like brain rot, goblin mode, rage bait and parasocial began as internet talk and are now in dictionaries. Some are older than they look, such as brain rot, which Thoreau used in 1854. Research on the words themselves is thin, and none of them is a medical diagnosis.
Many rules of thumb carry a person's name. Some began as remarks or jokes, like Godwin's and Betteridge's laws. Some are warnings about measures and teams, like Goodhart's, Campbell's and Conway's laws. Others came from measurements, like Hick's and Fitts's laws and the Zeigarnik effect, whose memory claim has been hard to repeat.
Nihilism says that something we count on, such as meaning, morals or knowledge, has no real basis.
Most of these words have a written rule behind them. Organic usually needs certification, and low fat, sugar free and gluten-free each come with a number.
Each of these ten money words names one idea. Inflation is a general rise in prices; an interest rate is the price of borrowing or the reward for saving.