Leading Is Emotionally Draining

Leadership is hard work, and like all hard work it can be adapted to and be invigorating. But there's a distinction between being a leader and being in charge in terms of status, respect, responsibility, and energy. Leadership carries the responsibility and rewards of the group, which is a form of love. Being in charge is merely telling others what to do which a mechanical function. The love that attends leadership is invigorating and strengthens the leader. Being in charge is draining. Without the love that charges leadership, the factotum becomes exhausted. Corporate culture's greed doesn't foster the love, and wants to exploit everything it touches; it wants robots who are in charge of other robots to push surpluses into financial profits. This depends on young managers who are like batteries with life energy that can be drained. It's why tech culture is youth oriented: it needs D-CELL batteries; "coppertops". The illusion of freedom that has been enjoyed by tech workers to organize their own work on their own terms has been a large error that couldn't be corrected by capital managers. AI is now being applied to fix this error. The draining will accelerate. Please welcome your AI overlords.