That's the problem with deploying play-acting as "solutions:" play-acting doesn't actually fix the problems at the source, it simply lets the problems run to failure.
Thank you all for sharing your experiences, I think this is the great untold story of the economy, for as Shin points out, if everyone realizes the system is the source of our struggle to keep it all glued together, then what happens? The extraction / exploitation collapses.
Charles, that is a key point--people can't yet see the system for what it is, but they sense the hollowness of the narrative.
As the experiences of Timmy, David and Harley show, burnout is in some ways a solution as it pushes us toward self-preservation as the top priority. warm regards, charles
Great article! Finally, an article was written about the reality of the workplace in the USA. I burnt out in my mid-30s and again in my fifties. Now, after the Covid Con, I'm burnt out again. No travel for me. No friends. No family. Just the house, property, wife, and online friends. And I trim those online friends and subscriptions from time to time.
Sometimes, I just had to walk away to keep sane and healthy.
@CHS - I read your burnout book... thank you for that. One thing you did not mention in this post, which I believe is also going on, is the way in which the "system" is fast losing legitimacy. Many people see it is a joke, corrupt, immoral, spiritually impoverished, and not worth working for. For example, we now have cryptocurrency called "fartcoin." People are paying $1.16/coin for this worthless thing that was meant to be a joke, a thing that in reality has no value. Likewise, the money system itself is a joke as the Federal Reserve just keeps printing money, without anything to back it up. The examples these days are seemingly endless. Now why should I work for those economic and social systems? To obtain money that is worthless or soon will be? Quitting and walking away only makes sense when you see the big picture.
Part of this is as pacification policy. If one constantly puts the focus on the self -I'm not good enough, or I can perform at superhuman levels, then can't and it's because I'm weak etc - the person will not look at the wider System. You hear it out and about constantly. 'If only I'd done x or y' irrespective of whether that was possible or not. If theyd just adopt a winning/positive/goals oriented mindset....
Interesting I've been hearing this lone of thought in relation to bitcoin very frequently. Oh if only I'd bought it at X date. I'm talking at cattle sell yard's, or at pubs in the middle of nowhere.
I went through "near" burnout in 1990. Chest tension constant, telephone constantly needing prompt reply, commute in DC area unbearable. Others experiencing same tensions often not available, compounding my efforts to make deadline progress. Fortunately, I could and did retire before health crisis. Started a new career doing something totally different, totally! No employees to "manage". Then decade later moved out of DC "road rage" area to distant rural area . Now very happy in sustainable environment at much lower income level. Everyone can do this, but you must be honest with yourself in evaluating your stress and to hell with the "keeping up with the Jones' mentality". You enter the world with nothing and you leave in the same way, just enjoy the period in-between.
So now I play a game of predicting what gaslighting is coming
Remember how inflation was not much the congress said we know the increases given to social security
But now Congress discovered the cost of living is terrible for them so have themselves a 40 percent raise
2 percent for you suckers 40 percent for me
Actually it’s trivial to fix Americans problems if apply KISS principle
No income tax which will force government to downsize if also end federal reserve and just use quantity theory of money Professor Steve Hanke expounds upon
Gas tax is for highways
Medicare payroll taxes Medicare
Social security taxes social security
What the heck are they doing with that income tax?
Thank you all for sharing your experiences, I think this is the great untold story of the economy, for as Shin points out, if everyone realizes the system is the source of our struggle to keep it all glued together, then what happens? The extraction / exploitation collapses.
Charles, that is a key point--people can't yet see the system for what it is, but they sense the hollowness of the narrative.
As the experiences of Timmy, David and Harley show, burnout is in some ways a solution as it pushes us toward self-preservation as the top priority. warm regards, charles
Great article! Finally, an article was written about the reality of the workplace in the USA. I burnt out in my mid-30s and again in my fifties. Now, after the Covid Con, I'm burnt out again. No travel for me. No friends. No family. Just the house, property, wife, and online friends. And I trim those online friends and subscriptions from time to time.
Sometimes, I just had to walk away to keep sane and healthy.
@CHS - I read your burnout book... thank you for that. One thing you did not mention in this post, which I believe is also going on, is the way in which the "system" is fast losing legitimacy. Many people see it is a joke, corrupt, immoral, spiritually impoverished, and not worth working for. For example, we now have cryptocurrency called "fartcoin." People are paying $1.16/coin for this worthless thing that was meant to be a joke, a thing that in reality has no value. Likewise, the money system itself is a joke as the Federal Reserve just keeps printing money, without anything to back it up. The examples these days are seemingly endless. Now why should I work for those economic and social systems? To obtain money that is worthless or soon will be? Quitting and walking away only makes sense when you see the big picture.
Part of this is as pacification policy. If one constantly puts the focus on the self -I'm not good enough, or I can perform at superhuman levels, then can't and it's because I'm weak etc - the person will not look at the wider System. You hear it out and about constantly. 'If only I'd done x or y' irrespective of whether that was possible or not. If theyd just adopt a winning/positive/goals oriented mindset....
Interesting I've been hearing this lone of thought in relation to bitcoin very frequently. Oh if only I'd bought it at X date. I'm talking at cattle sell yard's, or at pubs in the middle of nowhere.
I went through "near" burnout in 1990. Chest tension constant, telephone constantly needing prompt reply, commute in DC area unbearable. Others experiencing same tensions often not available, compounding my efforts to make deadline progress. Fortunately, I could and did retire before health crisis. Started a new career doing something totally different, totally! No employees to "manage". Then decade later moved out of DC "road rage" area to distant rural area . Now very happy in sustainable environment at much lower income level. Everyone can do this, but you must be honest with yourself in evaluating your stress and to hell with the "keeping up with the Jones' mentality". You enter the world with nothing and you leave in the same way, just enjoy the period in-between.
All of the gaslighting was very irritating to me
So now I play a game of predicting what gaslighting is coming
Remember how inflation was not much the congress said we know the increases given to social security
But now Congress discovered the cost of living is terrible for them so have themselves a 40 percent raise
2 percent for you suckers 40 percent for me
Actually it’s trivial to fix Americans problems if apply KISS principle
No income tax which will force government to downsize if also end federal reserve and just use quantity theory of money Professor Steve Hanke expounds upon
Gas tax is for highways
Medicare payroll taxes Medicare
Social security taxes social security
What the heck are they doing with that income tax?
I understand burnout too Charles as had it once