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“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.” – Rudyard Kipling, British author The Japanese have a word for working too much: karoshi. It's applied to people who literally work themselves to death... or suicide because they can't keep up. Japan's intense work culture encourages overwork, to the point where families of victims can sue the government and the victim's company for compensation. In Western languages, there's no equivalent for karoshi, nor do we officially recognize it as a cause of death—but it happens. Instead, we say those workers died from exhaustion, failed to care of themselves, used too many stimulants, or suffered sudden strokes or heart attacks. But those are just results; they don't address the root cause of people working too … [Read more...]