And is those are too Looney Leftist for you, here’s Fox Business
Progress comes at a price. You don’t like your job? Get a new one.
It’s not like he’s forcing you to work for him so if you think it’s dangerous, drop it, stop it and jump off to your dream job.
Can I make that a slogan
Drop it and stop it
You know, I’m going to step this past snarky gif use to an actual response here.
You are either young and incredibly naive or rich and live in a bubble, because for the large majority of workers, you can’t just leave your job.
78% of workers say they live paycheck to paycheck, there’s no savings to fall back on. You lose that job without another in line? You’re a month, probably less than, from being homeless. The vast majority of people do not have access to the privilege to even think about presuing their dreams so assholes like Musk can build ego rockets and the Waltons can own a yacht with another yacht inside.
Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers.
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After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys — yes, all men — from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world. After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology.
They had come with questions of their own.They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.Which region will be less impacted by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”
rich people are fucking terrifying
This is the same thing Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk want, an escape plan from the crisis capitalism created
This has to be one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time! An important read
yall are aware that the serotonin thing is pseudoscientific handwaving right
actually, more than that, it’s an “embarrassingly reductionist, one-deficiency-one-illness-one-pill model of mental illness” that began as a disturbingly successful marketing campaign by Eli Lilly (makers of prozac) in the 80s and GSK (makers of paxil) in the 90s.
here are some well-researched pop science articles on the subject:
Depression: It’s Not Your Serotonin, citing a large amount of academicresearch into manipulation of data relating to the low-serotonin hypothesis by drug companies. Turner et al (2008) in particular revealed that half of the 74 studies conducted by pharmaceutical companies on their SSRIs were negative, of them only 3 of them were published as is, 11 were published with positive spin, and 22 were left unpublished.
Psychiatry’s Grand Confession, citing increasingly skeptical research and also referencing questionable marketing tactics.
, citing a push from academics to ban adverts claiming “chemical imbalance” causes depression.
as well as citations in the literature:
Cowen PJ, Browing M (2015), a review summarizing the state of research into the serotonin hypotheses, concluding that “impairing serotonin function can cause clinical depression in some circumstances, but is neither necessary nor sufficient”, and that low serotonin at best correlates with prolonged recovery. They also directly critique development of psychiatric theory from the effects of pharmaceuticals.
Lacasse JR, Leo J (2005), a review of opinions on the low-serotonin hypothesis from leading researchers and clinicians.
Berman RM, Narasimhan M, Miller HL, et al (1999), studies in which rapid depletion of tryptophan (a serotonin precursor) produced no clinically significant changes in mood in healthy patients, and only brief clinically-relevant relapses in recovered patients.
Risch N, Herrell R, Lehner T, et al (2009), a 14000-patient meta analysis concluding there is no current link between serotonin transporter genotype and depression, accounting for social/personal stressors.
Castrén E (2005), a review on an alternate hypothesis that cites problems in information processing/cognition as the casuse of depression, and suggests that SSRIs actually disrupt neurochemical homeostasis even further, and that long-term recovery is a neuroplastic response to this magnified disruption.
like, if you’re participating in the “if you can’t make your own serotonin, store-bought is fine!” meme culture surrounding this, you’re furthering capitalist propaganda and that’s all there is to it. knock that shit off.
of course, this isn’t at all to say that people should never pursue medical treatment for their depressive symptoms or that their medication isn’t really helping them.
it’s just that furthering mythology propagated by the pharmaceutical industry that reduces the conditions of depressive pathology to an innate “chemical imbalance” obfuscates the social and material realities (i.e. capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, etc) that cause and exacerbate mental illness.
like, as tempting as it is to buy into the easy one-pill answer, there are broader social questions and pathologies at stake and we can’t afford to lose sight of them–especially not now.
holy SHIT I’m sitting at a drive thru and this older woman just came up and knocked on my window, so I rolled it down a crack, and she gave me a thumbs up and said, “capitalism is the Antichrist!”, I’m fucking dying hsjanxbxhxh
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