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While I have done my share of this kind of work when I was young, this is still horrible. I remember Richard Linklater's book Generation X had a couple of rules I still live by.

1. Don't eat yourself

2. Don't eat other people

If we could live by these two rules, there would be no Ghost Economy.



Or in the words of Terry Pratchett's Granny Weatherwax, sin comes from treating people as things, including yourself.


Kant's categorical imperative. You must treat people as ends in themselves, not means to ends.


Douglas Coupland book, no?


You're right, and now I cannot edit it!


I definitely don't do those things.


Could you explain that better?

I'm not into cannibalism, not a Survivor Type either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_Type

Or is it sexual?


I read it as burning out is eating yourself. Working too much regardless of the income, regardless of burnout or not is eating yourself.


I believe its metaphorical cannibalism.




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