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"Building Wealth Is The Closest Thing They Have To Fun."

Inside the culture of, and deification around, workaholics.

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Ted Bauer
Dec 08, 2023
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We tend to have an attitude, at least in America, that being a workaholic is a good thing. It’s virtuous. You’re a hard worker. You’re successful. You achieve things. You focus your attention in the right areas, especially if you’re a man. You eat what you kill, goddamn it!

The workaholic is often deified. We think it might not be that way for millennial…

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