the pressure to work longer hours, develop a social media brand, and constantly improve their lifestyle, all while being inundated with warnings about debts, injustices, crime, and health. A life of unending and unrewarded competition and self-improvement through increased efficiency and optimization is overwhelming, depressing, and unsatisfying. This is not what we were made for, and we know it, but rather than confront the problem, we blame ourselves and work harder.
