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I'm sorry but that's a parasitic perspective. What's the meaning of life? To work 80 hours a week to ensure someone gets their Elsa doll delivered in half an hour?

We're all caught up in consumerism and no one seems to care. You're perpetuating dystopia.

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Of course it sucks for the employees! You're right that it's a meaningless life that way.

But the fallacy is that it's somehow up to the "world" to fix that - Many people have this feeling that it "should" be better, but well, it's their company eh? You are always free to figure out how to do better on your own, instead of work for somebody else. You could always save up / borrow some money and then buy some land / start a shop / figure out how to do make it on your own. Why should you not work 80 hours? Why would anyone else owe you that?

I think bad working conditions are a symptom rather than the real problem. Nothing's really going to change until everyone starts realizing that stuff doesn't make you happy.

I agree with you.

"I'm sorry but that's a parasitic perspective. What's the meaning of life? To work 80 hours a week to ensure someone gets their Elsa doll delivered in half an hour?"

The meaning of life is whatever you make of it. If you want nice things, you will need to work your ass off to get it.

The root problem here is that people want nice things.

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