Turns out everything is political
I sometimes wonder how much my childhood shortened my lifespan. I think work wouldn’t top that stress I had.
Its work
Working, in the way that we do, takes years off of our lives and ruins the quality of life of people in their final years too.
I mean, its a meme and the message is put across very well but, for me, an important distinction is that wealthy increases life, as much as, it not more than poverty decreases it. Its wealth specifically and not wages. After a certain point, increased wages actually have an inverse effect on lifespan.
Wealth, in these instances is, of course, capital that makes you money. Specifically, money you make NOT from working.
The exact point at which life expectancy and QoL increases is always around thr exact level of wealth and passive income someone would need to drastically lower their working hours or stop completely.
Women still live longer than men. There are some biological factors for this, such as oestrogen being a vasodilator etc. However, now that women more and more work as much as men do, the difference is much smaller.
Nothing else has changed, between the sexes, to an extent that could explain such a shift in the data.
Nothing else reconciles all of the positions, let alone in one single stroke.
For those like me that had never seen this before: https://www.vogue.com/article/paris-hilton-debunks-stop-being-poor-shirt
This apparently never happened.
is the real slogan that much better though lol
“Stop Being Desperate” has a real “Let them eat cake” feel, especially coming from her.
Yeah but it’s funny
Lmao true
But like, also demonstrably not true. Which is kinda funny tbh.
We are a paradox.
I know I posted this before, but it’s an important reminder.
Please repost regularly, we shan’t forget.
I always say that the most damage my health took was not from drinking and smoking excessively - the most damage came from the stress of a defunct childhood and the subsequent lifestyle.
Yeah, know what you mean.
it’s not encouraging to think of someone being in med school and not reading the course description before signing up. if there was no course description that’s almost even worse
There might have been a less than clear course description. Also, it may have been the lack of sleep.
As someone who teaches chemistry to premeds, this is not surprising at all. To make a sweeping generalization, premeds, med students, and the MDs they become are some of the most entitled, condescending, and oblivious people I’ve ever met.
There are exceptions of course, but in general, I can’t stand most premeds and I really can’t stand how our culture puts MDs on a pedestal.
yea, a friend of mine from high school went through all of it and became a general surgeon. and i’ve heard stories. that and my experience from dating and living with a CFer lung transplant patient probably gave me as much of an “outsider’s view” of the medical/hospital industry as one could possibly have
the MD=pedestal thing died for me long ago
i know i’m not talking about the “point” of the post. don’t care.
It was probablly just a list of 20 humanities electives they had to pick 4 of for gen Ed requirements (not say9ng this is a bad thing maybe if there was more of this 1/4 of every engineering class wouldn’t go straight to Lockheed martin)
They’re supposed to be less rigorous and a little more general than other courses, this is really grasping at straws for a reason to ignore the point being made.
hardly the point
