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Edifice Complex

#s:burnout #s:work #t:article/essay | It’s not simply that, as its democratizers suggest, everyone should be eligible for the burnout diagnosis—a universalizing project that risks defanging burnout as a term of critique. Rather, it’s that burnout names a power relation between tenant and landlord, worker and boss, and other lines of domination. If we attend carefully to the origins of the term, we can re-center the disenfranchised as the principal subjects of a story in which many others are implicated, and, ultimately, many others suffer.

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Sick systems: How to keep someone with you forever

#s:abuse #s:work | (Why we stay in bad jobs.) A sick system has four basic rules: Rule 1: Keep them too busy to think. Rule 2: Keep them tired. Rule 3: Keep them emotionally involved. Rule 4: Reward intermittently.

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