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Re:McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist ... by thatfrenchguy on Thursday November 28, 2019 @06:48PM (#21660922)
A typical American thing: having a structural problem with how companies are structured (too stressful, useless deadlines, not enough down time), and instead of collectively fixing the problem, focusing on technical individual solutions that are supposed to help you cope. Tech companies are impressive at this.

You see the same shit in healthcare with a ton of supposed innovations that don’t go to the core of why the system is broken.

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Re:McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist ... by andrekandre on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:44PM (#21667969)
> You see the same shit in healthcare with a ton of supposed innovations that don’t go to the core of why the system is broken.

well, i guess that’s why it’s done: fixing the core of things is hard and requires concentrated energy to fix, which would you choose if you were ‘just another component’ in the system? and those at the top are the beneficiaries, so they have even less incentive to fix core issues (until they become life/wellbeing threatening that is, and then even, it’s probably too late...)

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