Is Your Dream Job a Trap? The Dark Side of America's "Make Your Own Job" Obsession.

American work culture pressures individuals to find self-expression in jobs, fueled by entrepreneurial spirit & positive psychology, leading to exploitation, burnout, & a tragic cycle.

1. The entrepreneurial ethic, fueled by positive psychology, functions as a preemptive "insurance policy" against redundancy and obsolescence in a precarious job market, rather than a genuine path to fulfillment.

2. The celebration of workers’ "proactivity" through the entrepreneurial ethic disguises an essentially exploitative relationship, particularly when it becomes a management philosophy used for cost-cutting and deregulation.

3. The entrepreneurial ethic, with its emphasis on individual responsibility and self-branding, creates an illusion that aligns tech billionaires and gig workers against government regulation, masking their fundamentally different economic realities.

4. The relentless search for innovation and optimization, driven by the entrepreneurial ethic, renders swaths of the workforce redundant and obsolete, contributing to a perpetual cycle of burnout and deindustrialization.

5. The pressure to build a personal brand, epitomized by the "Me, Inc." mentality, is a pathology that corrupts our souls and relationships, going beyond mere insufferability to have deeper ethical consequences.