• Dozzi92@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    My senior year English class (2005), we had to write a philosophy of life paper, and mine was a tongue in cheek pessimistic outlook where we existed to reproduce and produce. It was intentionally incredibly insincere, and yet here we are 20 years later and I’ve unfortunately hit the nail on the head.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      oops I crapped my pants

      edit you know i was joking but now that i think of it, so many of them have Resting Oops-I-Crapped-My-Pants Face [or Resting Oops-I-Am-Crapping-My-Pants Face] it cannot be a coincidence

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      Honestly, I’d be fine with it, if it actually led to the part where the population is healthy enough to work and thrive if they so desired.

      But that’s not what they’re saying. They’re saying they want to keep you alive long enough to keep working past your retirement age.

      Quality of life never factors into financial projections, so their goal is give the bare minimum to the people who can pay for it. The part where he says “If you so desire” is so incredibly loaded I am surprised it didn’t make a loud crashing noise when he said it. Tell us what the alternative is Doc Oz. What’s the alternative??

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        take it from me, the years you are capable of working are more valuable to you than the years you are not, regardless of what you do with them. if you are unable to work, there’s a damn good chance you amassed quite the list of things you were unable to do before work got added to the list.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    Also, this ignores the rampant ageism that is ever-present in the workforce.

    In today’s economic circumstances, you are probably best working until you are 65 or more, unless you want to be impoverished in your later years. Also, your health care is tied to the workplace for the most part. Unless something changes drastically to correct this - something like UBI and/or better SS/Medicare, better ACA, etc., that’s just the way it is.

    In addition, biotech may add years of healthspan to people’s lives, meaning they would be very able to work and live healthy lives much, much longer than was expected of prior generations. On the other hand, you have this accepted culture where it’s like people start signaling to people as young as 35 that maybe they are getting long in the tooth.

    I mean…what in the FUCK? How is that math going to work out in the aggregate?

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 months ago

    “You are worth keeping alive only as long as your owners can continue to extract value from your existence.” - Dr. Oz

  • answersplease77@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 months ago

    but the reason we’re getting sick is work-related stress, sleep deprivation, and bad diet in first place. The correlation between poverty and early death is undeniable

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      21·
      6 months ago

      Great, but your only reward for excellent health is that they want you to sit obediently working in your office cubicle to age 72 and beyond.

        • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
          5·
          6 months ago

          I’m just reminding you what this post is about. Dr Oz wants everybody to be healthy for the sole purpose of staying in the workforce until death to improve the nation’s economy. I’m 50 and still doing cartwheels & handstands & pullups & running miles but if all the govt sees me as is a slave to capitalism for their own selfish benefit, I say the sooner we uprise & conquer fascism, the better.

  • fletcher_bosom@lemmy.world
    46·
    6 months ago

    It’s one of those rare cases in which both sides should agree- whether you believe a government is an institutional arm of people who agree to collectively take care of everyone, or whether you give no shits and only want to make money. And yet somehow America still has terrible healthcare.

    • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.socialEnglish
      14·
      6 months ago

      This is what’s so infuriating to me. There are so many policies we don’t implement not because it would be a net negative even for the economy, but just because some people are too afraid of giving anyone a “handout” that they “don’t deserve” or something.