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by earthling8118 803 days ago
You dismiss that these are arbitrary, but I'm not seeing a whole lot in your examples that aren't also arbitrary. Sure, this is how a lot, if not all, companies work. That does nothing to disprove that this is arbitrary at the cost of mental health.
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What is your point?

We are not isolates who just subsist by ourselves. The modern world is a massively complex interconnected and interdependent system and we rely on the glue of capitalism to ensure that everyone still looks out for themselves but makes it all work for the system.

Were the massive chip shortages causing a massive reduction in car availability and increase in prices "arbitrary"?

Was the Suez canal blockage causing weeks of shipping delays "arbitrary"?

If companies promise to pay for a stall at the next expo, but then don't actually make it because they don't ship their products in time, and now the expo loses revenue because they can't fill the stall at the last moment, is that also "arbitrary"?

Crunch culture will fix none of those problems. Especially not the first two.

What's your exchange rate for expo revenue loss vs employee physical and mental health?