White collar workers are only cucked if they allow themselves to be. If you take a salary job and work 60 hours per week then that’s on you. I personally haven’t worked overtime in years and barely work the 40 I’m required to (work from home as well so I dont even gotta pay attention half the time unless in a meeting). I personally like the job I do so it’s not even bad. Blue collar you’re forced to work hard and be a slave. At least in a white collar position you can take your skills and apply them in a way that is beneficial and provides leverage to you instead of giving it all to the employer. I see you are a crypto trader. To me that would be more stressful than what I do now, mainly because I see shit like bitcoin losing tens of thousands in the past year and the volatility of it changes overnight. Same would go for stock trading. I’d constantly be on edge and would develop an unhealthy addiction to trading, checking everything every second of the day. At my job I can just log on and shut my brain off half the time and do whatever the hell I want the other half, all for guaranteed income. I make enough now that I dont really give a shit about making more, so my job is more about quality of life than anything. Way less stress than trading of any kind IMO. That’s just me though. I realize some people probably like yourself don’t look at it the same way I do, but I wouldn’t be able to help myself from obsessing over it, otherwise I’d take the “easy way out” as Lenny would say.

Also, ironically I was in the best shape of my life when I was at that labor camp job, but then again I was young as fuck and had unlimited amounts of energy. 5k calories of McDonalds when your 20 working in what is basically a concentration camp is just maintenence. Couldn’t get away with that now unfortunately.