“Passion for your work just means your employer gets free emotional labor on top of your actual job.”
Agree
- Emotional investment makes exploitation easier for them
- Passion is weaponized against reasonable boundaries
- Caring more means working more for same pay
- Professional detachment protects your mental health better
Disagree
- Life's too short to spend hating work
- Passion creates excellence and innovation naturally
- Cynicism prevents any possibility of fulfillment
- Some work genuinely deserves emotional investment
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