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Re:Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthine... by RodgerTheGreat on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:56PM (#24088814)
Would you feel the same way about "successful practices" which discriminate against employees on the basis of race, sex, or religious preferences? There are plenty of commonplace social practices which do not benefit employees or society. The mere presence of a feature does not prove that it is adaptive.
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Re:Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthine... by distant_hat on Saturday August 08, 2020 @02:48AM (#24089634)
But they do benefit employees. I am not a smoker but a number of people in a former company were and they shared a camaraderie that if you didn't hang out with them you wouldn't get. It also cut across levels, so you could be an intern and it was an easy time to hang out with some mid level manager and get noticed.
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