If you’re young, have no children, and don’t mind picking up and moving and giving up local connections, sure.

That’s not common, though.

Really though, the solution is to change jobs. Despite how it looks from HN comments, there are plenty of companies out there with good work life balance.

Painting this as a false dichotomy between staying in burnout-inducing jobs or dropping everything to become jobless isn’t helpful. There’s an entire spectrum of options that should be explored to change a burnout-inducing situation.