I have no idea if this is a true story, but i definitely hope it is. Unfortunately, as with most American cultural products, eventually Europe starts to import them (as we did with American culture war bullshit), and this toxic “hustle culture” is now slowly also becoming more normalized in some places in Europe, particularly in Germany. It’s definitely not the norm as it is in the US, and for the time being we still have laws against it (though with Blackrock Merz in charge who knows for how long…), but i am seeing signs of it popping up more and more.
Luckily there are still some countries in Europe where hustle culture will have a really hard time catching on. I can’t imagine Spain, Greece or southern Italy going for it. Even in most of the Balkans it’s a tough sell, we’re just not built that way, lol.