Personal growth sacrificed.
80-100 hr weeks.
Health deterioration. Health sacrifice. Selling your soul (friends, family, hobbies, hairline) for mammon.
Suicidal thoughts from analysts and even prospects.
Human Civ is as advanced as its ever been but this is how we are deciding to spend our time?
Nice one cavemen.
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Yep but what if other people have worse lives.
Thats a fallacy and strawman.
Cope.
Ad hominem, already worked in the industry
Yeah, it’s wild — we went from inventing fire to burning ourselves out in Excel. Modern evolution: from spears to spreadsheets. At least the cavemen got more sunlight.
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