this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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I feel this is highly inaccurate because it would imply these faults are on the slave and not on the system. It's not about the job, it's about the slavery itself.
I found through personal experience that the prestigiousness of the job is highly irrelevant; it's the working that sucks. It's the mandatory devotion to literally anything that sucks one's soul from one's body. And yes, that does become repetitive, and leads to some of the symptoms described above.
But much of the above list are based on factors that are forced upon all of us:
It's about the system, not the slaves.