The thing is that your dad, and dads of many other people lived in times in which people were not this much overworked for the profit of corporate shareholders. The workday was sensible, workload was reasonable, compensation was rational.

Since 1990s, everything was changed for the sake of profit. So much that buying out companies, laying off half or more of the workforce under the title 'downsizing' and making the rest work twice as much is a business model now. And its used by almost any investment fund. The rest of the economy has to follow suit or get left behind in the race for profits.

As a result people are now overworked, underpaid with little financial security for future. They do live less. For some, hurling themselves out of the corporate dungeon is salvation in itself.