Why is Burnout so common among developers?
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Without constant, active measures to counteract the damage from being at a screen 60 hours a week, your body will atrophy, you will get RSI's, and you will burnout.
It is deeply inhuman work, and the amount of adaptation required is insane. Personally, I am only doing this work for the money, and when I have enough saved, I am going to retire early and become a baker or something.
Work is traded for pay because it sucks. It always sucked from prehistory to now.
Burnout is a bespoke label for something very simple. Work sucks
You are just making evolution goal directed to suit your argument. It isn't