20 Posts That Show How ‘Work-Life Balance’ Doesn’t Really Exist

western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose. to work, to make money. some indigenous cultures believe we're alive just as nature is alive: to be here, to be beautiful & strange. we don't need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness. https://t.co/xzv821b0UN

— lanie (@melatoninlau) July 26, 2021

Seriously thinking of becoming a demotivational speaker. Someone needs to tell people to take a break and chill the fuck out, we aren't here just to work ourselves to death

— the user previously known as ghaura (@ghauraghaura) June 16, 2021

Get a job doing what you love and you'll have to work twice as hard for half as much money, because your boss will exploit your passion for profit, and drive you little by little to hate what you once loved.

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) September 22, 2019

I realize this is a controversial take but maybe being one blown tire, one broken bone, or one paycheck away from homelessness & financial ruin at all times isn’t actually “freedom” the way we were raised to believe it is.

— One Hot Mess AK (@libbybakalar) April 13, 2020

Missionaries thought Hawaiians were lazy bcus by noon Hawaiians were surfing, doing art, socializing. What they didn't see was that Hawaiians started the day at dawn & were so efficient & organized that they were done planting, harvesting and cooking for the entire day by 9am.

— Aᴅᴀᴍ Kᴇᴀᴡᴇ Mᴀɴᴀʟᴏ-Cᴀᴍᴘ (@adamkeawe) November 27, 2020

The worst capitalist brainwash is being proud of your own exploitation. Saying you've worked 80 hour weeks since you turned 17 isnt a flex, it's sad

— Savvy☭ (@sleepisocialist) December 17, 2020

I love how Millenials and GenZ are collectively rejecting Hustle Culture.

No we will not work on our rest days
No we will not sleep for 2 hours.
No there is no glory in blind devotion to the grind
No it is not admirable to- very literally -work oneself to the grave

— Kaluhi's_Kitchen (@KaluhisKitchen) June 16, 2021

Someone at my mom’s workplace who has COVID and was on a ventilator for more than a week up until earlier today joined a Zoom meeting from the ICU because her boss told her she needed to start working remotely as soon as she was off the ventilator?? Capitalism is a death cult!

— riddhi patel is innocent 🇵🇸🍉❤️ (@alitlstrawberry) August 17, 2021

a bunch of people in power are about to talk about this tragic "natural disaster" and i want each and every one of them to explain to me what is "natural" about a giant tornado in december killing people who were still working on factory floors at 3am despite weather warnings

— Alix E. Harrow (@AlixEHarrow) December 11, 2021

I’ve been working since I was 15 without a break longer than 2 weeks. I’m 32. I’m fucking tired.

— k*lly albr*cht (@kellynotbrecht) September 21, 2020