...But the production of commodities, like every other form of production, has it peculiar, inherent laws inseparable from it; and these laws work, despite anarchy, in and through anarchy. They reveal themselves in the only persistent form of social inter-relations — i.e., in exchange — and here they affect the individual producers as compulsory laws of competition. They are, at first, unknown to these producers themselves, and have to be discovered by them gradually and as the result of experience. They work themselves out, therefore, independently of the producers, and in antagonism to them, as inexorable natural laws of their particular form of production. The product governs the producers.
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Dudes would rather have a weekly breakdown than go to therapy
This is legit some sort of clinical level workaholic psychosis. Honestly pretty depressing what this can do to people.
I can't imagine having a personality molded by society. I'd be 
long before that happens
Joe Heller
True story,
Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22’ has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Many such cases
The way he makes his videos, with regards to how he treats his film crew and editors, is also completely unsustainable and should not be allowed. Big "we're all friends and family" vibes.
Shouldn't he have enough money to quit by now? Ride off into the sunset, man. There's nothing left to win.
also like, what is there for him if he has "no personality". If I made just like 2M (Mr. Beast is worth 500M), you could live off 6% interest and make a comfy 100k annually. I'd go skiing, go rock climbing, work on some projects I can't do because I have to work for a living. If he has nothing to live for, he stops grinding on his youtube channel and then what? He just sinks into a depressive episode?
Some people are like this and also call other people lazy.
Could he subsist of $60k a year of youtube money and not burn himself out so much? What would the Commissar of youtube have to say about this?
I wonder how long we've got until one of these Offputting YouTuber that emerged from the aether fully formed with an army of child-to-tween fans type guys kicks off a regional-scale nuclear war
McLoughlin’s comments hit at another bleak possibility: Viewers may hardly see MrBeast having fun in his videos because he’s not actually having a good time. In podcasts, Donaldson tells hosts that he goes so hard, he won’t stop working until he burns out and isn’t able to do anything at all. With a laugh, he admits that he has a mental breakdown “every other week.” If he ever stops for a breather, he says, he gets depressed,
i hate to say it but i empathize a bit with this, like i had a real bad mental situation some years ago and i felt this just a constant urge to keep doing stuff because if my brain wasn't fully ocuppied i could not escape my thoughts, but on the other hand YOU ARE SO RICH, LIKE JUST UNTHINKABLY SO, JUST FUCKING DEAL WITH THIS SHIT, GET DRUGS I DON'T KNOW BUD, like there is a bit of atragic side to the fact that he sold his soul to the machine and now everything feels like shit but it kinda balances out by the fact that you did get what you wanted