I saw a video about ‘Singaporean chefs working in top S.F restaurants’ and one of them says ‘there are too many labor laws in California’
My wife and I burst out laughing because it’s so typical (they were saying that they, as employees, did not want a 30 min break)
Our society has basically brainwashed us into thinking that overwork is normal and the only self worth one can have is how much other people think you are a success.
After many years of being away (and frankly being an oddball when I was there) it’s still very much baked into my DNA and it’s very hard to escape this ‘need for achieving’ and ‘disregarding what it does to you’ as the cost of it
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