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> “oh wow burnout is real I’m so woke” is a privileged person problem This is a profoundly destructive narrative. First of all, comparing levels of privilege
by goodpoint 5y ago
> “oh wow burnout is real I’m so woke” is a privileged person problem
This is a profoundly destructive narrative.
First of all, comparing levels of privilege or disparaging people with a "privileged person problem" is unhelpful.
If we won the birthplace lottery and live in a wealthy and safe society the best thing to do is to use such advantage to make the whole world a better place and combat inequality.
Rolling your eyes is not that.
Second, burnout and depression are very common in the software industry and yet severely underreported and understated.
Many companies are responsible for exhausting on-call duty shifts, crunch time, endless deadlines. Some try to have employee perform unpaid overtime over weekends by calling it a hackathon.
You never hear these companies taking serious steps to address burnout.