[feoren]

This starts from the hidden assumption that all work sucks. Basically, if you become passionate about your work, you will necessarily burn out, because work is awful for everyone all the time everywhere. It's a little like saying you should work really really hard to not be too into your romantic partner, because every human being on the planet is an abusive asshole.

Clearly not every human being is an abusive asshole; it's wonderful to be really extremely deeply invested in your romantic partner! But unfortunately we can't really say the same thing about work environments.

What you're actually doing here is excusing shitty work environments. If all jobs are abusive to their employers, we need to fix that, and quickly. There is nothing more satisfying in life than being passionate about your work, and the fact that it is virtually impossible to do so without eventually feeling like a battered abuse victim is a symptom of a late-stage cancerous regulatory-captured capitalism run by a caste of psychopaths.

I want to be passionate and invested in my work. Can we work together to make that a good thing, rather than being something only stupid loser suckers do?