I’m sure others have made this observation in the past, but I was just thinking about it and had a personal epiphany. Tobacco and caffeine are socially acceptable are because they don’t stop you from working. If anything they can help you work longer. That’s why you don’t see the elitecalling them evil so much as other drugs. Not a super mind shattering realization but I thought it might be worth discussion. Thoughts?

  • Muad'DibberMA
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    4 years ago

    Totally agree. You also see lots of financial and tech managers encouraging “micro-dosing”, and even meditation sessions, to increase worker productivity.

    I remember someone linking me a book about coffee, with a section on its pervasiveness in workplaces from the 1900s onward, but I forget the name.

    • gallock
      4·
      4 years ago

      The fact that meditation has been hijacked for “pRoDuCtIviTy” is so sad. Vipassana and mindfulness was reduced to “concentration exercises”, with breath as the object, but nothing more.