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Is it so hard to find out that burnout is created by a society that glorifies productivity, success, gains, above all things? We are not robots. We are humans. It is not an individual problem, our society is sick.

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We all suffer from the human condition.

> fundamental attribution error, also known as correspondence bias or attribution effect, is a cognitive attribution bias where observers underemphasize situational and environmental factors for the behavior of an actor while overemphasizing dispositional or personality factors.

We can have differently shaped societies, and they have different impacts on their members.

Yes. Of course personal traits are important, but depression and burnout as an epidemic level, are essentially a problem that emerged and worsen in the last decades, even with the improvement of therapies, drugs and techniques. Why?

> One of the first things we discover in these [peer support] groups is that personal problems are political problems. There are no personal solutions at this time. There is only collective action for a collective solution.

-- Carol Hanisch, 1970

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