How to read the economy by looking at TikTok

TikTok's famous “quiet quitting” and live-tweeted resignations shed some light on what was going on in the US job market. PHOTO: AFP
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The unemployment rate in the United States has hovered at 3.7 per cent for months.

But it is the TikTok-famous “quiet quitting” and live-tweeted resignations that really explained what was going on in the country’s job market.

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