BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year

Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by Daishiman on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:13PM (#28132947)

> You're essentially saying that not working may not be healthy. That's one of the strangest things I've read today.

But it is true. An internal study at a megacorp I worked at showed that people who didn't retire ended up living longer.

It makes a ton of sense. Intellectual work keeps your mind stimulated and your body moving. Inaction ends up killing old people.

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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by krapp on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:21PM (#28133021)

If anything that proves inactivity is unhealthy, not a life without work.

Not all activity has to be done in the service of providing value to a corporation. You can retire and take up fishing or rock climbing, play chess, write a book.

This idea that we've been conditioned to, that the only valid life is the life we trade for money, is insidious.

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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by BossingAround on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @02:43AM (#28138832)

> Intellectual work keeps your mind stimulated and your body moving. Inaction ends up killing old people.

Nobody argues with this. But thinking that paid work is the only source of mind stimulation and body movement is just silly.

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