US working culture may be brain dead — I’d call it exploitative — but did you know it’s not illegal to send your staff home on time? This is an explicit choice made by many layers of management to hurt their workers.
I work with a lot of US-based staff, not at SpaceX, and they’re able to go home on time, visit the Dr, spend time with family.
That’s a choice bosses made.
Demon Core was bad but it wasn’t SpaceX-level bad.