The problem with critiquing hustle culture is that everyone's already doing it. We nod along about burnout, then check our notifications and feel vaguely inadequate about whatever we're not optimizing this week. But here's what's actually interesting: Most people rejecting hustle culture aren't embracing laziness. They want their lives to matter. The tension is between incompatible ways of measuring whether a life has mattered at all. When someone says "I want to be successfu