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This is almost too sad to dunk on. People running the world have never had a reflective conversation with a professional trained to help process emotions and healthily cope with the human condition. They're in charge of billions of dollars worth of resources and guiding society's investment into the future. Cooooool

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 103 points 1 year ago

I love how mental health here is coached in terms of productivity and not actually your own well being, lmao

[-] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago

Par for the course for silicon valley nerds

They do the same thing with psychedelics

[-] SeducingCamel@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

I'm at peace with the world so now I can grind harder

[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 1 year ago

if i take juuuuust enough to not hallucinate i can increase my contribution to my employer's and shareholders' wealth by 5-7% !!!

I never knew psylocibin was such a great tool for capital!

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Productivity and well-being are functionally interchangeable for this guy. If you're not working, you're not well.

It's like the old European line: "We only work so we can go on vacations. Americans only vacation so they can do more work."

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

There’s a slightly older European saying that work makes you free. That one is closer to the way techbros see the world

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

In so far as it's a devious lie, certainly.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

No wonder I have to hear "psychology is bunk" so many times from computer touchers that believe (without evidence) that there's some killer app right around the corner that will fix traumas and disorders by treating the human brain just like a binary computer.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I'm a centrist - a lot of psychology is bunk but it's because of the sheer amount of fraud that gets passed off as novel research. oh, wait sorry, someone just tugged my shirt to inform me that they actually love Malcolm Gladwell.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

I won't even argue with you there: a lot of it is bunk up-yours-woke-moralists but dismissing the entire academic field in favor of more computer touching with reductionist takes about how the brain works is silly to me.

Applied psychology gave us EMDR, CBT, DBT, and other useful practices. It also gave us effective but fucked up marketing tricks that have been refined for decades.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I'm more commenting on the consequences of poor science communication and the "publish or perish" regime on the state of knowledge on the field (honestly all of academia - physics isn't without it's own high profile scandals), allowing hucksters to mystify knowledge. psychology is merely distinguished because it's principal results are very easy to explain to laypeople so you get a lot of people talking about like "Stockholm Syndrome" without the education to put those results into their proper context, and so they wind up generalizing those results much further than the research actually allows. you see the exact same thing taking root with physics and "quantum" this or that. also fuck Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Ferris.

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

:Byung-Chul-han-shining:

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