This line from the article may be one of the saddest descriptions of modern "success" I've ever read: "When you’ve been conditioned to believe rightly or wrong

This line from the article may be one of the saddest descriptions of modern "success" I've ever read: "When you’ve been conditioned to believe rightly or wrongly that your value as a human being is derived from the economic value you provide to those around you and all barriers to producing work have been removed by an unprecedented upheaval to social norms, it felt like there was only one path forward and that was working as hard as possible every day."