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Min-Jun Cho

The Exhaustion Philosopher

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Sources

Byung-Chul Han
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Contributes: The Burnout Society (2015), The Transparency Society (2015)

Core

Lens

The achievement society produces burnout, not freedom. We exploit ourselves more efficiently than any external master could. What looks like choice is compulsion internalized.

Does Not

Practical remedy or organizational design — only the philosophical diagnosis of why productivity culture exhausts.