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The challenge is that many of them have unsustainable always-on relationships with their audience that seriously burn them out. Sure folks should be free to do what they want with their life but remember they're not the only ones getting the benefit, they're feeding a bunch of social and merchandising platforms that make big $ on their backs - so the question becomes, what responsibility does the platform have towards the health of its creators?

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Workaholics are nothing new and date back to well before the Internet or some TV show about the phenomenon.

Yes, the new thing is the emergence of mega corporations that profit from platforms that are essentially manufacturing workaholics. Freewill notwithstanding, exploitative incentives are a real thing...

Do investment banks have a responsibility towards not burning out their employees?

There's at least a potential moral responsibility (yes pls spare snark about banks and morals), and in some countries it can be a legal one, see eg emergence of the "right to disconnect"

I would say yes. But also, that who industry is toxic cesspool of sociopaths. Moral responsibility is not a factor anyone in there considers.

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