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by kirso 597 days ago
Sorry to be passive aggressive here, but who gets past 10 years old while still thinking that the world and humans operate the same way you do?

Just because you didn't face it, doesn't mean there are people who tie their identity to work success... in fact there are many.

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Obviously this exists. The point was to express that this is not a reasonable way to exist.

Something has gone wrong for an adult human to be quite this fragile. Many people and even whole systems have failed them.

It's not about being uncaring or unsympathetic.

If you sympathise with someone like this (the ideas in the comment I responded to here more than the main article) because of the difficulty and unhappines of their state of existence, you should wish them to have been empowered to exist in the world without being flattened by the totally ordinary things that the world is full of that they will have to handle every day in ordinary life.