The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees
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The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees
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#2It makes it sound as if work was more healthy in the past. Was it? When? I know hunter gatherer times were supposed to be paradise, but anything since then? Farming sounds rather arduous. Or what about mining, or working in factories where safety measures have not yet been invented?
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#3For the love of Christ (btw not a Christian).
We live in what people of any past time period would appropriately call paradise. We live longer, have the music and culture of the world at our fingertips, and the vast vast majority of Americans do not suffer from unsanitary conditions, having to hunt a giant animal, child slavery, or frequent rape.
And yet our new priests are these pseudoscientific... whiners.
Sure, stress affects the body. So does bitching about the best average living conditions ever. Go take a chi kung class, you have the time. If not, look up meditation on the Internet. Can't afford it? We have these amazing institutions called libraries. Walk 10 miles to one, its good for you.
No one SHOULD care. Please. Grow the fuck up.
Re: The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees
#4It makes it sound as if work was more healthy in the past. Was it? When? I know hunter gatherer times were supposed to be paradise, but anything since then? Farming sounds rather arduous. Or what about mining, or working in factories where safety measures have not yet been invented?
This has nothing to do with work in the past being more healthy. It is not a this or that situation.
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#5Dealing w/ RSI has been an eye opener for me. What makes it worse: working on a laptop, working on the plane, having to do long hours in poor ergonomic conditions. What do I have to do to be good at my job? Basically, that. What happens if it gets worse and I can no longer use a computer for at least eight hours a day? That is my livelihood
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#6For the love of Christ (btw not a Christian). We live in what people of any past time period would appropriately call paradise. We live longer, have the music and culture of the world at our fingertips, and the vast vast majority of Americans do not suffer from unsanitary conditions, having to hunt a giant animal, child slavery, or frequent rape. And yet our new priests are these pseudoscientific... whiners. Sure, st…
If you're going to comment here please make it civil and substantive.
Re: The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees
#7It makes it sound as if work was more healthy in the past. Was it? When? I know hunter gatherer times were supposed to be paradise, but anything since then? Farming sounds rather arduous. Or what about mining, or working in factories where safety measures have not yet been invented?
>It makes it sound as if work was more healthy in the past. Was it? When?
20 years ago, before the lax in regulations made the whole world a competitive nightmare for most workers.
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#8For the love of Christ (btw not a Christian). We live in what people of any past time period would appropriately call paradise. We live longer, have the music and culture of the world at our fingertips, and the vast vast majority of Americans do not suffer from unsanitary conditions, having to hunt a giant animal, child slavery, or frequent rape. And yet our new priests are these pseudoscientific... whiners. Sure, st…
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This is about as civil of a kick in the butt as this post deserves. Enjoy bitching about the best it will ever get, you fucking whiner. Flag away.
Re: The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees
#9It makes it sound as if work was more healthy in the past. Was it? When? I know hunter gatherer times were supposed to be paradise, but anything since then? Farming sounds rather arduous. Or what about mining, or working in factories where safety measures have not yet been invented?
This has nothing to do with work in the past being more healthy. It is not a this or that situation.
The way it is written suggests "the workplace" used to be better: "But I would say that with all the evidence I’ve encountered — and it’s not perfect evidence — I’ve seen nothing inconsistent with the statement that the workplace has generally gotten worse" - "I see a workplace that has become shockingly inhumane."
Of course it is still valid to ask how a healthier workplace could be created. Just the notion that things were better in the past seems very unlikely to me.
Re: The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees
#10It makes it sound as if work was more healthy in the past. Was it? When? I know hunter gatherer times were supposed to be paradise, but anything since then? Farming sounds rather arduous. Or what about mining, or working in factories where safety measures have not yet been invented?
As other commenter says, it's not "this or that", but having said that, quality of life for the middle class was definitely better only a few decades ago. An average job would get you a house, a car and a pension, working eight hours a day, five days a week. And "middle class" meant a much greater range of jobs. Factory work could get you a house, a car and a pension. Time with kids, no worries about the future, or how you are going to eat when you retire, if you get to retire. Good times.