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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by Trundle on Thursday March 22, 2018 @09:06PM (#16654207)
Equivalent animals certainly don't spend all day toiling. We aren't ants. I don't see any reason to believe that was the case for us.
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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by mathgladiator on Thursday March 22, 2018 @09:47PM (#16654421)
For many animals, every day is a fight to live. Constantly looking for food.
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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by watwut on Friday March 23, 2018 @01:27AM (#16655314)
Cats sleep 16 hours a day for example. Animals in nature are not constantly looking for food, except grass eaters who ear whole day.
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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by awat on Friday March 23, 2018 @01:52AM (#16655437)
This reminds me of a paper on primate stress level increases due to the amount of time they spend foraging (study was focused on deforestation but seems applicable here). It seems to suggest a biological ceiling for well being and reproductive success.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130122102110.h...

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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by mathgladiator on Friday March 23, 2018 @02:33AM (#16655615)
True. That is also because digestion for them is wonky (IIRC).

However, they are a predator. Look at mice or other small creatures, and you realize their entire existence is the search for food.

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Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on emplo... by CalRobert on Friday March 23, 2018 @06:09PM (#16663017)
Of course, most of them die.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37775622

Though if we weren't so damn focused on having so much crap maybe a few of those animals would still be around.

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