[5DFractalTetris]

I've known one U.S. karoshi. Beyond that, I know maybe four or five individuals, myself included, in private and public sector U.S. roles, who have overwork habits: cigarettes and/or coffee, fasting diets, sleeplessness, social isolation, second jobs and volunteer schedules which seem necessary to hold their communities together. Probably all the truckers who die in their 40s or 50s are overwork deaths.

Truckers and office worker overwork deaths are probably among the most absurd, though I don't have figures regarding light industrial factories. The millenary lifestyle of agriculture and correspondence with the bureaucratic authorities is mostly lost, as arable land is commodified into multi-million dollar "lottery property" which renders a life without the risk of overwork death, and with happiness and a modest, long-duration passive income, almost entirely inaccessible to those not born into a family holding that sort of land. I don't know if that's entirely true but I've been doing research and the bootstraps by which I might hoist myself do indeed seem mythical.

Not all citizens are guaranteed a pension or benefits, and cannot necessarily access roles which do. The pensions and their management are a political talking point ("Candidate X will disrupt pensions"), which is outward and openly-admitted evidence of corruption, and where the situation becomes even more troubling.

This is not merely something a company could fix, at least not in the U.S.A..