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Why hustle culture is killing the youth
When wealth schemes or shortcuts fail — as they often do — the emotional fallout can be devastating, sometimes pushing young people to the brink of suicide.
‘Rise and hustle’. ‘Sleep is for the weak’. ‘Every minute you're not working, someone else is winning’. ‘The end justifies the means’. These are not fringe slogans of Silicon Valley dreamers but commonplace exhortations inundating our screens, embroidered into apparel, and etched into the minds of youths-calling them to action. Urgent action.
This is the hustle culture, a way of life and collective mindset that glorifies incessant productivity, idolises workaholism, and equates rest with complacent laziness. Among the youth, this is becoming a definitive benchmark and it’s time we sat down for a cost-benefit analysis.
