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The Tsunami of Burnout Few See

That's the problem with deploying play-acting as "solutions:" play-acting doesn't actually fix the problems at the source, it simply lets th...

All these experiences are viewed through the lens of the mental health industry which is blind to the systemic nature of stress and pressure, and so the "fixes" are medications to tamp down what's diagnosed not as burnout but as depression or anxiety, in other words, the symptoms, not the cause. Nobody seems willing to tell the truth, that it's all play-acting: that employers "really care about our employees, you're family," when the reality is we're all interchangeable cogs in the machine that focuses solely on keeping us glued together to do the work. In the moment, the final trigger could be any number of things, but the real issue is the total weight of stress generated by multiple, reinforcing sources of internal and external pressure.

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