What's So Bad About Ambition, Anyway?

To survey the landscape, you would think “ambition” had become a swear word.

After a decade of #girlboss #hustle, the tides seem to have turned. “Antiwork” is the name of one of the most popular subreddits, panicky think pieces about workers merely fulfilling their job descriptions and going home at five (as they are contractually guaranteed the right to do), populate the pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and I keep hearing from folks in management that “nobody wants to work anymore.”