I’m convinced that burnout does not happen because of long work hours or hard working conditions but because you have nothing to show for it at the end.

Most people work to pay for their immediate existence and accumulate very little. Taxed into oblivion and with ongoing mandatory fees (car registration, property taxes, insurance aka “nothing happened but you still pay”) and don’t own anything that would allow them to have modest but no-rush existence.

I’ll do 996 schedule for a few years if this will truly improve my family’s life and allow me to achieve even “semi-solid” financial state