RR Phantom
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| Subject: Work is making mindless serfs numb Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:03 pm | |
| You can tell this is a world of ultra neo-liberalism when even the most heart-centred of topics are reduced to productivity and economics metrics.
Take, for example, mental illness, which we’re told results in lost productivity of $10.9 billion in Australia. Or menopause, the hot flashes of which are dragging women away from work, costing the American economy millions of dollars. Or even diabetes, a chronic condition that, apparently, is delaying Europe’s recovery from the financial crisis.
The problem, I think, with such pervasive numerical fixations is that we become desensitised to what should be the real issue. In those cases, human struggles.
http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/managing/blogs/work-in-progress/work-is-making-you-numb-20140926-3gncg.html |
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