LET'S LIVE WITHOUT HARMING!: LET'S NOT IMPOSE EXCESSIVE WORKLOADS

One way to harm others is to subject them to work overload, excessive pressure, stress, competitiveness, and a toxic environment, even if they are well paid and offered a good professional career. Because all of this can lead to exhaustion, irritability, discomfort, burnout, and health problems:

• Mental, such as anxiety, aggression, and depression, which can even lead to destroying lives and suicide.

• Physical, as it is medically proven that stress contributes to cancer and many other diseases.

According to scientific studies, moderate capitalism is what brings the most well-being and quality of life to societies. Countries that lead the rankings of life satisfaction, such as Finland, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, Switzerland, etc., have very open, market-oriented, competitive, and innovative economies, which provide them with high per capita income, good public services, a high human development index, etc. Read more at…

Economy Oriented Towards Happiness

At the same time, they are moderate, which includes a balance between professional and personal life. They have a remarkable culture of work, effort, generation, entrepreneurship, and individual responsibility, but always within a balance.

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In these countries, as well as in places like California, employees tend to make good use of their working hours, concentrating on their tasks with hardly any distractions or conversations. They hold meetings only when essential, and during these, they usually do not talk more than strictly necessary. That is, they get straight to the point: each participant has previously researched the topics to be discussed, and decisions are made directly in the meeting.

For all these reasons, work is carried out productively, but at the same time, the schedule is respected. In all these places, it is 8 hours, except in Switzerland, where it can range between 8 and 9 hours.

On the other hand, although they usually work in a concentrated and productive manner, they tend to avoid excessive and forced work rhythms, which are far removed from human nature and generate discomfort and health problems, both psychological and physical.

Let’s follow their example and spread this balanced style, with reasonable working hours and levels of competitiveness, pressure, and stress. A culture of work is positive for individuals and countries, but excesses have the opposite effect. Read more at…

Companies Oriented Towards Happiness

Happiness-oriented policy

A very toxic type of labor system is “up or out,” where each year you either get promoted to a higher category or you are fired. This implies constant pressure and fear of being the next one to be “cut off.”

Another poisonous practice is intentionally trying to burn out new employees to see who can endure and who cannot. People are not lemons to be squeezed to the maximum. Money is important, but it is not everything in life. Maximizing profits does not justify everything.

Some people have a great capacity for work and can work many hours without feeling unwell, but they are a minority. Therefore, the ethical approach is to offer the option of working many hours in exchange for earning more money, but without pressuring them to do so, much less forcing them to maintain their job.

LIVE WITHOUT HARMING: Let’s Be Honest

At the country level, a paradigmatic case is South Korea, which in one generation has gone from poverty (with wealth levels similar to sub-Saharan African countries) to the first world.

This is a great achievement, but at the same time, the human cost is enormous: exhausting working hours, great pressure and competitiveness both in education and at work, depression and other mental health problems, as well as one of the highest suicide rates in the first world.

Most South Koreans find it truly difficult to escape this “rat race,” as most employment is provided by a few large corporations, the chaebols, such as Samsung. And all of them impose these conditions, so changing companies is of little use.

For this reason, most adults in that country (60%) would like to emigrate to another, despite their high purchasing power.

And the truth is that labor excesses are not necessary to generate great wealth and be competitive, productive, efficient, and oriented towards excellence.

CULTURE OF EFFORT, YES, BUT NOT OVEREXERTION!

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