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Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by 10xDev on Saturday April 08, 2023 @09:51AM (#35493085)
During lockdowns the rate of depression and all sorts of mental and physical issues went up. Becoming unemployed may not be the exact same thing as a lockdown but less incentive to get up at a reasonable time or to leave the house would still lead to more overweight, lazy and depressed people.
Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by lucideer on Saturday April 08, 2023 @09:56AM (#35493151)
> less incentive to get up at a reasonable time or to leave the house

People have plenty of natural incentives to leave the house ("reasonable time" is a sign of your own biases, but no doubt leaving the house is healthy regardless). The reason people don't do so is because there are strong economic disincentives to do so. This is not just obvious conscious disincentives like "I don't have time because I need to earn money online" & "I will have to pay for X, Y, Z in the city if I go out" but also much deeper more complex systematic disincentives like "I am chronically ill due to years of economically-linked stress and burnout" & "I feel depressed due to economically-linked lifelong trauma"

Healthy people don't need employers to incentivise them to leave the house. And unhealthy people don't need work, they need support.

Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by jonnycomputer on Saturday April 08, 2023 @09:55AM (#35493135)
People were stuck in their homes.
Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by 10xDev on Saturday April 08, 2023 @10:00AM (#35493206)
>Becoming unemployed may not be the exact same thing as a lockdown
Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by namarie on Saturday April 08, 2023 @02:23PM (#35496131)
Becoming unemployed may not be the exact same thing as a lockdown during a pandemic? Don't you think people dying in the hundreds of thousands due to disease has more to do with rise in depression than anything else?
Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by 10xDev on Sunday April 09, 2023 @11:12AM (#35503479)
Countless people die every day to all kinds of horrible diseases and most people were not even affected. Guess what there is even a war going on, tuberculosis, cancer and still covid.