Getting a chance to productively and quietly work for 4 hours is pretty unusual for a lot of us.
Re:Harvard: The Effects of Noise on Health
by airstrike on Monday April 24, 2023 @05:27PM
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Personally I am able to find that more often doing chores around the house than actually doing work in the office... which must be why I love doing the dishes
Re:Harvard: The Effects of Noise on Health
by asdfman123 on Monday April 24, 2023 @05:54PM
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You have that option though if you really seek it out.
Sure, it's possible to be relaxed about your lower status, but it's way easier to be relaxed about being richer: e.g., look at your coworkers who are quietly working for 4 hours and then going out biking in the middle of the day.
There's a cultural narrative that in some ways, richer people have it harder than poorer ones. It's responsible for underpinning the moral legitimacy of our class system, but I don't think it's actually true on average.
The thing is, no matter where you land you're going to find people who are unhappy or are struggling with their problems, but that's just because humans in general struggle with things.