[berg117]

To the people who run tech companies, and the corporate system as a whole, burnout is a feature, not a bug. The people in charge are not very smart and they can't recognize talent, so their only way to pick the next generation of leaders (other than through nepotism, which is how 85% of the good slots get allocated) is to subject people to increasing pointless unpleasantness and wait for attrition to create a ranking. It can't be fixed. It will be that way until the whole system is scrapped.

This is not limited to capitalist bureaucracies, of course--the most dysfunctional corners of the Soviet system were eerily similar--but it is arguably most pronounced in the corporate world, because there is no purpose for these hierarchies existing, or indeed no purpose for most of these companies at all except to make money for a small number of people whom there is no good reason to care about.

The WHO is right. Burnout isn't a medical problem or classical mental illness. It is a rational response to living under a socioeconomic system that has no right to exist.