Is hustle culture toxic or necessary?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is hustle culture toxic or necessary?". Your opponent's style: Jordan Peterson

“The Challenge of Gen Z: Better Let the Child Die Than the Tradition Perish”

I need clarity here. Are you arguing that Gen Z *rejects* hustle culture because it kills individual potential, or that hustle culture *demands* Gen Z sacrifice themselves to preserve productivity traditions? If it's the first: you're romanticizing burnout. Rejecting toxic grinding doesn't equal rejecting ambition, it means rejecting false metrics. Gen Z isn't "letting traditions die"—they're refusing to mistake exhaustion for excellence. That's not weakness, it's rationality. If it's the second: you're describing cult logic. No legitimate tradition survives only by destroying its practitioners. If hustle culture needs Gen Z corpses to persist, it deserves to die. Which side are you actually on here?