Counterintuitive Facts (36): The Demon Everyone Is Feeding
PremiumMoloch: Why do we all pursue happiness yet collectively create hell?
I. You work overtime until 10pm. You want to go home. Your colleagues also want to go home. But no one dares leave first. Because whoever leaves first will be seen by the boss as "not working hard," get less year end bonus, even get laid off. So everyone stays here pretending to work, exhausted body and mind, creating no value, just performing "hard work." Everyone hates 996, but everyone maintains 996. If one person stands up to break the rules, they'll immediately be eliminated by the system.
II. This demon that devours all good things, forcing everyone to hurt each other, has a name. It's called Moloch. Moloch is the fire god in Canaanite mythology who demands child sacrifice. Parents threw their children into fire pits, offering them to Moloch.
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