I once listened to someone who managed a walmart-esque store complain how to get their cashiers who earned slightly above minimum wage to go above and beyond their required duties
We tried that already. For decades. And all we got was a disastrous war on drugs, millions of lives needlessly ruined, and the largest prison population on the planet.
Not all drugs are bad. There are some that are obviously terrible and ruin lives. There are also some that help with a wide variety of physical and mental health issues though.
Even if you’re just thinking all drugs are bad, dumping people in jail for drug use/possession doesn’t fix anything. Time and money would be better spent on rehabilitation in that scenario.
Decriminalizing possession helps keep people out of jail, opens the door for proper studies on effects, and can help people with chronic conditions. I have heard that microdosing shrooms is apparently helpful with treating depression. It would be nice to see more information on that.
Unless something recent came out that I missed the few studies on micro dosing suggest it’s no better than placebo. Which isn’t to say it’s not effective, we do need more studies here.
Macrodoses of about 20-30mg (which is between 1g and 3g of mushrooms depending on potency), in clinical settings, have shown very strong evidence in the treatment of treatment resistant depression and end of life anxiety, and good evidence in treatment of anxiety disorders as well as alcohol and tobacco addiction.
Personally, I like 10-20mg once or twice a week for habit change*, and larger doses for getting out in the woods by myself and just being. I guess you could call it ego dissolution but I’ve done it enough times that when I’m in the right headspace it doesn’t feel like I’m losing anything but becoming part of everything. Listening to the birds and insects, it’s easy for me to completely forget myself on tryptamines like psilocybin and DMT.
Huberman Labs podcast has done a lot of episodes on psilocybin and psychedelic research. The current understanding of the main mechanism of action is really cool.
Basically, psilocybin helps different parts of the brain communicate better. Of course, this can be undesirable if repressed trauma surfaces and their’s no one there capable of helping the person process the trauma.
But it’s also amazing because it can help us tune back into how children process information, openly and innocently, because that part of the mind is still there. Hiding under our egos (which we develop mostly as teenagers). Assuming we feel safe enough of course, to let our survival mechanisms (ego) go for a bit.
Psilocybin is medicine and Nixon outlawed it as a political weapon. It was never a war on drugs, it was always a war on personal freedom and the voting rights of people who might threaten Nixon at the ballot box.
Sorry you don’t believe in liberty and personal freedom. Or the right to bodily autonomy, especially when it comes to medicine. That really sucks and I hope you work on it soon!
Really? Crying beer man who got everything handed to him on a silver platter who when for the first time in his life was questioned, broke down in tears?
Idk… I mean sure, the price of literally everything is outpacing my stagnant income, and my benefits are increasingly shit… But there’s a banner outside the parking lot I’m not allowed to use (admins only!) that says “Heroes work here!”
Ya hear that?! I’m a fuckin hero, y’all!! I can’t not be motivated now!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go shed a single tear while eating a meal of white rice. Again. With some soy sauce packets I stole from the cafeteria.
Seriously. What is this propagandist bullshit? Fucking sorry excuse for “journalism”, Bloomberg. Blame the prols? Is that it? Push us to judge each other, to shame our fellow replaceables until what? We roll out the guillotine again? I’m here for it.
I’ll even paint mine up so it says “Heroes work here!” right up at the top, so everyone knows who’s pulling the ripcord. How about that?
Motivated employees get taken advantage of with more work with no pay raises. These workers have finally learned and reduced their production to be even with those around them.
P.S. If this is you, like it was me, learn entrepreneurship. The harder you work, the more success you have.
I mean if your definition of success is being rewarded with more work with no pay raise then sure, but that’s just not true anymore. People used to believe that and they got taken advantage of, and you even addressed this in the first part of your comment. The real lesson needs to come from the top down. If you want your employees to work harder, pay them more.
You missed a part of the comment you are replying to. tygr said “The harder you work, the more success you have.” in relation to the previous sentence about changing from wage slave to entrepreneur.
The key is to have enough to fail. That’s why you see successful house flippers or whatever who started out with money. They may have started 2 or 3 businesses before they found what worked.
If you start out with only enough money for one business or house, you will be struggling for a long time because you have to make it work to survive. You have no money to expand if it’s a good idea and no money to quit and start over.
The best thing to start with is luck. Second best is enough money, so you can try several times.
When I started, I setup hosting and created 100 websites selling other people’s products. It was like $50/mo to do it. There’s ways to start a business without capital.
These days I would do TikTok videos selling other peoples products. No hosting needed
Shotgun applications to everyone in the field you want to go into, you might end up with your dream job, and know you can find something else should you not like the job you’re in, but give it a fair shot before you decide to jump ship.
Using Google Earth, go to 4195 Pine Island Rd in Matlacha Shores, FL. Currently, if you go down into street view you can see before & after images of the area, depending on which side of the street you are on. It still looked like the "after" images in August when my field techs were down there & taking pictures.
Imagine reading about the decades of wounds these poor women suffered, only for the associated press to ask you to pay them to read more about their pain.
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