This is the encouraged outcome of some marketing funnels. There are certainly many of us smarter/wiser than this. I'm sorry you haven't met and established re

This is the encouraged outcome of some marketing funnels. There are certainly many of us smarter/wiser than this. I'm sorry you haven't met and established relationships with enough of us yet. You're not wrong about the compulsive over working of the population. It's rarely optional in the tech industry (and many others but I haven't experienced those, only heard tale) if you want to participate. This ignores a lot of research about maximizing total output but it often serves the emotional needs of some people for status. Assuming you're not a fool with your money, what you do with it is turn around and help make the world around yourself even better. If you're smart/wise you find efficient ways to do this. Consider looking into efficient altruism, or even better, doing that but also creating a system (i.e business/organization/et cetera) that lifts more people into better circumstances and gives them some slack and support to be more efficient and wise.