Broken systems don’t just waste your time, they drain your life. The diminish your autonomy, your energy, and your sense of self.
This story looks at how broken systems weaponize motivation, turning care and high standards into unpaid survival labour.
Broken systems often look normal from the outside. Forms are filled in, boxes are ticked, procedures are followed, and everyone sounds reasonable.
But oftentimes that’s not the case.
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But inside the system, people can lose time, peace, autonomy, and selfhood while trying to keep a failing system functioning.
In this story, I explore motivational inversion — when your own care, standards, and intrinsic motivation are redirected away from your own life and used to maintain someone else’s dysfunction.
Sometimes, fighting for selfhood is not being selfish. It is the motivation that keeps you going.
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