There is immense dignity in the work people do, but the math of the modern 9-to-5 has decoupled from reality.

When your largest expenses, housing, education, and transport, outpace wage growth, you aren't just working for a salary, you are working to maintain a position on a treadmill that keeps speeding up.
It’s not a lack of effort on the worker's part, it’s an extraction model designed by $JPM and others to keep the middle class perpetually leveraged.