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"If you subtract your ability to work, who are you? Is there a self left to excavate? Do you know what you like and don't like when there's no one there to watch, and no exhaustion to force you to choose the path of least resistance? Do you know how to move without always moving forward?"

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

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"Being with our friends, the people who love and cherish us, is too unsettling to our schedules. And our schedules are our lives. And what are our lives without others?"

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

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"When driving for Uber is framed as a voluntary side gig instead of a desperate attempt to supplement a dwindling teacher's salary, then it's all the easier to ignore the reality of the economic situation and the companies that take advantage of the workers they've failed."

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

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"We were raised to work harder to find that promised perfect job, eager to perform what Kathleen Kuehn calls "hope labor": "un- or under-compensated work, often performed in exchange for experience and exposure in hopes that future work will follow.""

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

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"This equation is, in itself, premised on a work-life integration poised for burnout: What you love becomes your work; your work becomes what you love."

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

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"The rhetoric of 'Do what you love, and you'll never work another day in your life,' is a burnout trap. By cloaking the labor in the language of "passion," we're prevented from thinking of what we do as what it is: a job, not the entirety of our lives."

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

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"Once an elite experience is opened to many, it's no longer elite, and another cordoned area is created to redraw the lines of distinction."

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

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"To be valuable in capitalist society is to be able to work."

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

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"With assistance from our parents, society, and educators, we came to understand ourselves, consciously or not, as 'human capital': subjects to optimized for better performance in the economy."

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

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"[Hannah Rosin] points out, 'A common concern of parents these days is that children grow up too fast. But sometimes it seems as if children don't get the space to grow up at all; they just become adept at mimicking the habits of adulthood.'"

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

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"(...) the myth of the wholly self-made American, like all myths, relies on some sort of sustained wilful ignorance – often perpetuated by those who've already benefited from them."

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

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"Is everyone ashamed and pretending not to be?"

Want [edited] by Gillian Anderson

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"Sometimes I wonder if I have been dying for years."

What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

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"Did she know how much he needed her now? How he didn't remember solitude anymore and would go anywhere she led him, because she was the brightest star?"

What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

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"Maybe all I see is the end. Maybe the end is so big that it swallows the beginning. Maybe there is no beginning anymore."

What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

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"What does this beauty mean if I can never leave it, if I can never long for it?"

What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

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"To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted."

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong