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  • NeurologistOPtoPoems@reddthat.comPlague Poems
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    1 month ago

    If you’re healthy.

    Sucks to be disabled or immunocompromised or at risk in any other way…

    Also, it’s still killing at much higher rates than the flu.

    And I won’t even start getting into Long COVID, which I’m currently researching. But it is a major crisis. 2-4 million people unable to work in the US because of it.






  • NeurologistOPtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldEfficient distribution of labour my ass
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    1 month ago

    Not really.

    There have been extensive sociological studies over this. Condition in a capitalist society and the promotion of the “homo economicus” model continually reinforces “greediness” and leads to people in capitalist societies being far “greedier” on average.

    It isn’t a natural thing, it is conditioned. Obviously everyone is greedy to an extent. But in anthropological examinations of different forms of societies, altruism scored far higher than greediness in non-capitalistic societies.

    Kate Raworth, Oxford Economist, wrote an excellent chapter about this in her book called “doughnut economics”. The chapter is “Nurture Human Nature”.

    The view that all humans are greedy and rational was promoted by Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill and is the precursing foundation of capitalism. But modern economics have rejected this view as it has been proven to be inaccurate, and increasingly rely on theoretical models built within behavioural economics.







  • NeurologistOPtopics@lemmy.worldAerial Photo of Lake Chad
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    Lac Léman, is the french word for what english people call lake geneva (all the region around lac léman is french speaking).

    Léman comes from celtic “lemann” which means lake.

    So lac léman is the lake lake. Given it is the biggest lake in western europe, not a bad name.





  • unpopular opinion is not the same thing as academic literature lol makes sense.

    Though I found the points to be well thought it (if not clearly written in a rush).

    Also to be fair given the post, they could likely be a med student or something. Most people aren’t aware of the specific biological factors they listed nor some of the conditions, as OP used some medical terminology not often seen used by layman.



  • That’s only in some schools of thought of psychology.

    There are plenty of praticing psychologists and psychiatrists (some of my colleagues) who genuinely believe and publish research along the lines of “all mental illness are caused by thoughts and behaviours”. Research that in my opinion is heavily flawed, but still published and peer reviewed, so a lot of people in the field think this way.