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by notfromhere 2817 days ago
Because people have a long-established inability to fully realize the long-term impacts of things when compared to short-term benefit?
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Wait, you mean that drinking cases of Diet Coke and beer all day and working 18 hours a day for your 20s May have long term health impacts?
People who worked as teenagers working at ice cream parlors report life long pain in their dominant wrist.

Is that something you expect a 16 year old to know is going to happen?

Biomechanics is a complicated subject.

Totally agree — my sarcasm may not have been clear.

I worked on a farm throwing hay from 12-17. I ended up needing back surgery at 25.

Sorry, I read it as another one of those "dumb entitled kids get what they deserve!" posts.

It is hard to tell nowadays, with multiple people coming out and saying things like "millennials could afford houses if they didn't buy iPhones!"

"people" aren't but you are able to for them? What makes you so much better than the workers at Amazon?
Employers creative incentive structures that screw over employees in the long-term is objectively bad.