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diff --git a/content/entry/how-extreme-wealth-inequality-harms-the-wealthy.md b/content/entry/how-extreme-wealth-inequality-harms-the-wealthy.md index fd660bb..f6b93b3 100644 --- a/content/entry/how-extreme-wealth-inequality-harms-the-wealthy.md +++ b/content/entry/how-extreme-wealth-inequality-harms-the-wealthy.md @@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ More wealth inequality means less people can afford higher education. Therefore It doesn't matter how many billions you have. Once you get cancer, there is no surefire cure. Maybe we would have one with more intelligent people working on it. When intelligent people are forced to waste all their time performing [bullshit jobs](/2022/01/22/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work/) just to survive, they don't have the time or energy to do important work. ## Sleep Deprivation And Exhaustion -When people are forced to work constantly and [accept interruptions by work during non-work hours](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_disconnect), they become exhausted and sleep deprived, which leads to [all sorts of negative consequences to the brain](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation#Effects_and_consequences). +When people are forced to work constantly and [accept interruptions by work during non-work hours](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_disconnect), they become exhausted and sleep deprived, which leads to [all sorts of negative consequences to the brain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation#Effects_and_consequences). To name a few, there are deficits in attention and working memory, irritability, depression, anxiety, severely impaired driving ability, insomnia, microsleeping, brain-localized sleeping, obesity, hypertension, a weak immune system, diabetes, headaches, mania, and many other effects. -Sleep deprivation is so harmful to a person's health, the U.S. and U.K. [governments have used it as a form of torture](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation#Interrogation). +Sleep deprivation is so harmful to a person's health, the U.S. and U.K. [governments have used it as a form of torture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation#Interrogation). -In some countries, retail chains are allowed to be open all hours of the night. So employees sleep during the day, being exposed to bright light which confuses the body's [circadian rhythm](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm), causing sleep problems and all the negative consequences that come with it. +In some countries, retail chains are allowed to be open all hours of the night. So employees sleep during the day, being exposed to bright light which confuses the body's [circadian rhythm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm), causing sleep problems and all the negative consequences that come with it. Even if you're very wealthy, do you really want to interact with people that are irritable, exhausted, and unhealthy? Because that affects you too. Wouldn't you much rather live in a society that gets enough sleep and isn't exhausted from working all the time? Wouldn't that be a happier, more fun place to live? |