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Burnout is not what you think it is. The wellness industrial complex tries to convince us that burnout is our fault, a personal failing due to our inability to keep up with the unreasonable pace of capitalism:
In this economy, we, humans, become our own extractable resource through the coercion and exploitation of our labor. We are only as good as the value we offer back to the market. And it fuels a conditional mindset that if we are more productive, we are more worthy; if we become more efficient, we can become more free. The myth of wellness builds on this ideology by trying to convince us that we are not human - that to be human, vulnerable and needy is wrong. It tells us that we are objects to be perfected, to be optimized, to produce.
But we have needs. We are not machines.
(American Detox)
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