Unless you’re one of the lucky few with millions in the bank (or the courage to just steal everything they need), you’re probably feeling pretty bleak about the state of the world right now. Everything is ungodly expensive, from the food you eat to the mortgage you’re helping your landlord pay off by giving him rent every month.

The media has looked at people doing things they’d rather not, in a state of misery, and apparently thought, “Hey, what if this wasn’t the manifestation of a society in decay, but instead, a hot new trend?”

A recent piece in the Associated Press noted the rise of “polyworking.” That’s right: just a few generations after you could get a house on a single salary, the media is excitedly telling us about people who have “decided” to work other jobs as a way to “combat frozen salaries and inflation.”

This isn’t the first article to make light of this situation, nor to use this term, but it certainly feels among the most tone deaf. The article goes into how people are taking on other jobs to make ends meet, to be able to have any savings whatsoever, or to broaden their skillset in case they get fired. While this is dubbed “polyworking” in the article, many internet users have instead called it “B.S.”

“They're making up whole new terms to try and explain away the fact that people can't live off one job's income in a lot of cases anymore,” wrote one user. “Honestly, I hate the way they have tried to romanticize working two jobs. Especially because there's already a term for it called ‘overemployed,’” shared another. “‘Polyworking’ used to be known as working a second job,” offered a third, adding that the term now makes it “sound like something they do for pleasure like polyamory.”

Let it be known that in this house, we work not for pleasure, but to be able to afford the real Ben & Jerry’s over the generic!