> During rush hour, those 67 minutes may be spent on a train crowded with four times as many passengers as it’s designed to carry. This article gives me the im

> During rush hour, those 67 minutes may be spent on a train crowded with four times as many passengers as it’s designed to carry. This article gives me the impression that all they're really trying to do, realizing it or not, is make it possible for that anti-pattern, and all the anti-patterns surrounding it, to continue to exist. "Be strong, go to work!" Also, if you have to travel 67 minutes to and from work in a cattle car, and you're part of the "salary man" cohort with legendary working hours, how can you have any time at all to take advantage of the "free" mental health services mentioned elsewhere in this thread. I've been on software "death marches" of a few weeks or months. The stereotype that I see in my at a distance news reading from Japan looks like a lifelong death march. We are not "meant," or evolved, depending on your point of view, to work and stress all our waking hours. We are not meant to live in Tokyo and similar environments.