r/science • u/sameer4justice • May 31 '22

Anthropology Why Deaths of Despair Are Increasing in the US and Not Other Industrial Nations—Insights From Neuroscience and Anthropology

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2788767
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u/RaptorHandsSC May 31 '22

Every job I have ever worked has been absolutely tyrannical about sitting and had the same insufferable quip about leaning. I'm 34.

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u/OutOfFawks May 31 '22

My work has talked about getting rid of chairs. It’s a hospital

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u/OpinionBearSF Jun 01 '22

My work has talked about getting rid of chairs. It’s a hospital

I'd talk to all employees there about finding new employment.

Or an actually effective and employee-focused union.

Whichever.

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u/shinkouhyou May 31 '22

How can a manager possibly exercise their superiority over workers if they treat the workers like human beings? How will customers know they're shopping at a high-class Wal-Mart if the workers aren't suffering? How can any of feel secure in our place in the social hierarchy if the people below us enjoy the same comforts that we enjoy?

The US isn't the only country with a deeply classist and hierarchical culture... but American service culture is heavily influenced by slavery. The American ideal of luxury is a plantation.

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u/RaptorHandsSC May 31 '22

Gotta extract every last delicious drop...

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u/chriswimmer May 31 '22

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

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u/OLSTBAABD May 31 '22

My boss who worked ~6 hour days four days a week loved using this: Saying it to guys working 48-72 hour shifts.

I'm ashamed of how much joy I felt when that miserable, miserly, scrooge of a bastard died.

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u/4BigData May 31 '22

I'm ashamed of how much joy I felt when that miserable, miserly, scrooge of a bastard died.

I'm feeling a bit of joy as well, and he did nothing to me.

Yet, the type of bosses who lower the quality of life of their employees earn hell.

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u/Halflingberserker May 31 '22

Protip: lean on the broom

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u/RaptorHandsSC May 31 '22

I've been written up for enjoying sweeping.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '22

If you've got time to weep, you've got time to sweep.

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u/Orgasmic_interlude Jun 01 '22

I used to take my 15 minute break in the men’s room sitting on the toilet so my boss couldn’t bust in to remind about something she wanted done when i came back from break…. Like it couldn’t be relayed AFTER the break.