Your Exhaustion Isn’t from Overwork. It’s from Meaninglessness.
Modern knowledge workers are exhausted not because they work too hard, but because their work is meaningless. The tiredness you can’t explain is the psychological toll of maintaining deliberate inefficiency to justify your job. The system rewards activity over impact, and your brain knows the difference. This article validates that existential fatigue and argues the real problem isn’t burnout—it’s a crisis of meaning.