Forgive me if I’m being callous. There’s an intersection in the Venn Diagram between burnout and mental health issues, but also some distinctions. I’ve viewed

Forgive me if I’m being callous. There’s an intersection in the Venn Diagram between burnout and mental health issues, but also some distinctions. I’ve viewed burnout to be one of two options. 1 - For creatives, a lack of creative fulfillment. Everyone has some creativity but I’m specifically talking about “artists”. 2 - Not being paid enough. Everything is relative. For some people “hustling” even if they’re making 1% salaries is too much. I think that the perspective would be changed if one was a C-suite level or a founder of that same company. We see this in Wall Street too, and nearly ever power law job. Most people, particularly blue collar workers, work physically backbreaking hours doing physically backbreaking work. They can’t afford the luxury of burnout. There’s maybe a large middle class band where people can. For people beyond that, maybe even on the higher end of upper middle class, they’re being compensated enough so the psychological checks and balances compute well enough that burnout doesn’t manifest like how it does for others. I’d also argue that the optics of “success/growth at all costs” are falsely blamed in SV in particular because SV has a “fail upwards” mechanism that rewards failures. Lastly, I think that stagnation is not the same thing as burnout.