[FirmwareBurner]

>Not sure why this got downvoted

Because HN doesn't like comments that are blunt about harsh realities, they like a warm tone that coddles and softens the facts.

>They may say things out of social niceties, but they really do not care.

My favorite part is when companies pretend to tackle burnouts with giving their workers subscriptions to yoga or mindfulness apps, instead of you know, the sane thing that actually works, which is less workload and a less toxic work environment.

> Maybe if it causes their cost share of your healthcare plan to go up they might, but not really.

Would be nice if that were the case. I live in a country with universal healthcare, so all the externalities of burnouts get socialized from the private system to the state healthcare and welfare systems, not to the employers. It's incredibly rare that an employer here is reprimanded against stress induced onto the workers. Only if there's hard evidence proving the employer is the cause, or an employee kills themselves you might see the state looking into it and fining the employer.

[steveBK123]

I've also noticed, especially in the last 6 months, any threads going too far in questioning paymasters here quickly gets downvoted/filtered/disappeared off main page quite quickly.