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" ... Although the English language doesn’t have a word for death from work stress, other countries do. The Japanese call it karoshi to describe the ten thousand workers a year in that country who drop dead from putting in 60-to-70-hour workweeks. Otherwise healthy Japanese workers keel over at their desks after a long stretch of overtime or after consummating a high-pressured deal, usually from a stroke or heart attack. Karoshi among corporate workers in their 40s and 50s has become so common that the Japanese workplace has been dubbed “a killing field.” And some economists in India have referred to death from work stress as “a poison by slow motion.” ... "
" ... But it’s not just the sustainable development profession—that profession is embedded in an ubiquitous work-and-spend treadmill of the dominant culture. Gallup recently reported that 70 percent of American employees are either unhappy or disengaged at work. Anxiety levels among adolescents and adults are soaring, even compared to just two decades ago. One out of every four adults in America experiences some form of depression in the course of their lives. In Japan, they have a name for people who die from overworking: karoshi. Could we in the United States be tipping toward becoming a nation of karoshis? I, for one, became so stressed by constant work and the pace of city life that — before our Slow Year experiment — I found myself nearly a karoshi myself. I’m convinced that society must find a new equilibrium between the demands of business, the consumptive habits of society, and our own personal happiness. ... "