America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable

Re:America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Mis... by crispyambulance on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:15PM (#19220181)

A stint of physical labor is certainly a valuable experience, I long for it too, but it DOES eventually break the body if it is done year after year for decades.

I suspect that years of meaningless work just shuffling money around for wealthy people and institutions has a similar effect on the psyche, even if it is obscenely compensated.

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Re:America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Mis... by gambler on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:56PM (#19220495)

Physical work shouldn't break your body if you work within reasonable limits of exertion.

Also, sitting all day does breaks your body.

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Re:America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Mis... by ip26 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:39PM (#19221233)

I've concluded when people say "break your body", they usually refer to the slowly accumulating string of little slip-ups. You turn the wrench too hard and bash your knuckle. You grab something that was still too hot. You drop something on your foot. You lift something the wrong way and pull something. No one slip-up is a real big deal, but you can't help but make a few, and they slowly add up.

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