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Observation: You say that the world isn't black and white, but then you proceed immediately to all-or-nothing thinking. ("the entire system is setup to make you believe if you aren't killing yourself to make others rich, then you're simply adding to the problem.") That's a cognitive distortion.Unfortunately the world isn't black/white and the entire system is setup to make you believe if you aren't killing yourself to make others rich, then you're simply adding to the problem. Corporations get away with how they treat people because of mentalities such as these.
You can give your employer exactly the amount of effort they deserve/pay you for without sacrificing your personal standards/integrity. You "quiet quit" at work, but the instant you go home, you turn into the problem solving, technically-inclined monster you seem to be. I'm a web developer (for a "career") and implement this very logic myself.
Having said all that, ultimately the point is moot as you've already been fired. I suppose that IS the point though. Regardless of whether or not you gave them your full-a$$ or half-a$$, they still control and determine the outcome of your employment.
While I am sincerely sorry for you being fired, it simply emphasizes your point of you more than likely being better off as the boss vs being the employee.
Can you see how this is all-or-nothing thinking? Your statement uses a superlative (the entire system? really?) and implies that the only alternative to quiet quitting is to "kill yourself to make others rich." This is not how it works, and it's not what people are advocating when they are against quiet quitting.
Also, I'm not sure if you were expressing condolences to me or to OP about being fired, but in my scenario, I was not fired. If you assumed I was, I suppose you might have misread this statement ("This mindset shift would have been reinforced when I eventually got fired and I knew I only had myself to thank for it due to not putting in legitimate effort.") but I was speaking hypothetically the whole way through.
In my actual real life, when I found myself in that kind of job, I looked around, made choices, and quickly got myself out of that predicament and into a much better situation for myself.
"They" don't have as much control as you think they do. If you've ever been an employer who has an employee with immense skills and you know that the business would fall apart if they were to get hit by a bus or something, you know what I'm talking about. Viewing your life as being under some third-party's control rather than your own is a mindset shift. You might be interested to try taking this test and see if you have an internal or external locus of control.
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