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End the deification of the workaholic

The workaholic culture will never end, and especially among males -- but we can at least reduce the ways we deify it and treat it as vain-glorious, no?

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Ted Bauer
Apr 30, 2016
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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 millennia…

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