## Metadata - Author: [[Jessica Wildfire]] - Full Title: The Great Burnout - Category: #articles - URL: https://medium.com/p/3127bba295d3 ## Highlights - Productivity… what ripoff. If getting more done was the secret to happiness and success, we’d all be billionaires by now. - Tags: [[favorite]] - The typical American seems to think that malls and blooming onions at packed restaurants matter more than anything. The idea of “fun” is eating out, shopping, and then going to see a movie. When they talk about freedom, this is what they mean. They’ll go to war to protect all this. They’ll risk dying from a deadly virus, or killing someone else. It matters more than doctors and nurses. It matters more than unvaccinated children and their exhausted parents. It matters more than teachers. - Imagine living a life so difficult, so stressful, so filled with pointless obligations and responsibilities that you need two weeks to pretend you’re someone else, you live somewhere else, you have servants. You spend all year saving up for this fake escape, and planning every minute.