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by samtho 204 days ago
The problem isn’t tricky at all, actually.

Just because the punishment for seeking mental health care is losing one’s entire career doesn’t make these problems disappear, it just makes everyone very good at masking or self medicating.

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Until, of course, someone takes shrooms and tries to shut down the engines of a plane in flight.
Everyone will be one with everything (including the ground)
It filters out the people who are too mentally ill to mask.
> filters out the people who are too mentally ill to mask

this is a very good point - only vulnerability is a person decompensates from "able to mask" to "lets gooooo" in a very short period of time - between two flights say - then we're gonna have some problems