Self-sacrifice can be good. It was the reduction of people to just productivity (yours in the original post, their "productive lives" in the most recent) that m

Self-sacrifice can be good. It was the reduction of people to just productivity (yours in the original post, their "productive lives" in the most recent) that made me sad. Because while people being productive and proud of what they produce is good and important, I hate to see people only treated as their work output. Especially by themselves.