Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

Re:Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Lab... by AlecSchueler on Monday May 04, 2026 @05:10PM (#48015045)

> Older and younger people often just don't compromise enough from an intrinsic motivation to make it work

Could the market itself be encouraging demographic segregation. If we measure and focus on economic growth above all else then the workplace becomes the place more important than all others.

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Re:Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Lab... by andix on Monday May 04, 2026 @05:14PM (#48015088)

My claim is, that the market is encouraging segregation less than society. Jobs force people to work together. If nobody forces them, they often just don't work together, and stay in their bubble.

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Re:Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Lab... by entropicdrifter on Monday May 04, 2026 @05:36PM (#48015329)

It's kind of a six-of-one half-a-dozen-of-the-other situation IMO. Modern society does tend to have extreme social bubbles, but those are also a product of market forces, which in turn were influenced by previous states of society, etc etc back to the beginning of time.

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Re:Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Lab... by AlecSchueler on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @01:55PM (#48026078)

Back to the beginning of time or back several centuries?

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