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When compassion comes at personal cost

I've been covering for my coworker's mistakes for months because she's going through a divorce, but my own performance review suffered and I don't know if being kind was worth it.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The expectation that individuals absorb systemic failures through personal sacrifice creates unsustainable moral burdens.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fairness — what every civilization concluded?”

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