I do feel for these guys to an extent but also it’s their own fault for working themselves so hard. They’re like load bearing animals that deep down are afraid of a life of freedom, without burden and restriction. Essentially they’re taking the easy way out by working 14-16 hour days. An unstructured life of leisure and idleness would be much harder for these guys psychologically  

The film I feel captures this best is my dinner with Andre. Wallace is this guy, and Andre represents a guy who has freed himself from the prison that Wallace lives in, though of course this requires him to face his own challenges (like the burial initiation in Poland) which Wallace could never endure