One's health will eventually fail no matter the safety net, but I suspect time spent focused on your own wellbeing (rather than your boss's) will pay great dividends; use some of that time away from work to hit the gym and cook healthy meals for yourself/friends/family.

I'd say the problem with b is that there are lots of ways to rise above the chaff - you can sell NFTs or some other MLM/scam or resort to more outright crimes; without any morals you can extract as much value from society as you wish and it seems like no one will stop you; see my above comment regarding private equity.

It seems you've missed at least one option and that is the so called "quiet quitting" that the article is about, though I suppose you could file that under giving up, I see it more as playing the game just enough to get by.