The achievement subject is simultaneously prisoner and guard of its own work camp.

Evidence

The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the master himself has become a laboring slave. In this society of compulsion, everyone carries a work camp inside. This labor camp is defined by the fact that one is simultaneously prisoner and guard, victim and perpetrator. One exploits oneself. It means that exploitation is possible even without domination. People who suffer from depression, bipolar disorder, or burnout syndrome develop the symptoms displayed by the Muselmänner in concentration camps. Muselmänner are emaciated prisoners lacking all vigor who, like people with acute depression, have become entirely apathetic and can no longer even recognize physical cold or the orders given by guards. One cannot help but suspect that the late-modern animal laborans with neuronal disturbances would have been a Muselmann, too—albeit well fed and probably obese. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 51

Categorization

• XREF: This is THE core mechanism the reader wants: self-exploitation without domination — why exhaustion has no one to blame, since subject and exploiter are the same body.
• DEEPTHINKING: The Muselmann parallel — burnout victims resemble concentration-camp walking corpses — yokes moral horror to everyday exhaustion in a way that resists easy dismissal and reframes self-optimization as self-incarceration.
• SEED: Angle for an essay: ‘the work camp inside’ — the self-optimizing exhaustion economy, where productivity discourse trains us to be our own guards.