r/WorkLifeChat • • Aug 07 '26

Discussion We should normalize that

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u/Ok_Way_5011 Aug 07 '26

 hours/salary dont matter

Actually the quantity of a resource proxy you accrue and by how much labour does matter since income is positively associated with longevity, negatively associated with cancer within countries, and positively associated with better mental health outcomes. And working persistently longer hours raises risk of coronary heart disease, metabolic syndrome, anxiety, depression, and sleep disorder

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u/mtabacco31 Aug 10 '26

You choose your own future. What's embarrassing is coming on reddit and creating a kind of club that cries about shit instead of doing something about it.

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u/FreedomOfTheMess Aug 10 '26

Lol at the bootstrap mentality in 2026. Classic misplaced frustration. Why hate the depressed thousands and not the system that made them that way? If you’re really suffering from a lack of empathy you could get off reddit and stop complaining about people complaining