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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I’m pretty sure that the morning people Venn circle has a shitload of overlap with the kind of people who are both neurotic control freaks and lacking in empathy and are thus vastly overrepresented in positions of authority to begin with.

Then once they got into power, they enforced their preferences to the point that it’s now a prerequisite for power, which makes it even more likely to be perpetuated and so on and so forth until everyone whose sleep patterns don’t naturally conform simply die several years earlier due to all the added stress and poor health decisions required to adapt.

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tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think they’re just a vocal minority in that group. I know plenty of chill daywalkers

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- Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Seems like you misunderstood what I meant: I’m not saying that most morning people are neurotic control freaks who lack empathy.
  
  I’m saying that most neurotic control freaks who lack empathy, a small proportion of the population which is EXTREMELY overrepresented in positions of authority, are also morning people
  
  So yeah, seems we’re in agreement about daywalkers in general 😁
  
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  - tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh I see. I still think the opposite is contestable from my personal experience. I can name a few people in my immediate circle who are definitely night owls and match that apathetic personality profile. All anecdotal of course
    
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Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Eh, like almost everything else in human experience it initially started because of daylight and agriculture. Hunters and gatherers had fluid schedules, but farms had strict requirements. Without electricity and with a life built around plants and animals, everyone just has to work when the suns up. With most of the population involved in agriculture and not much else, you’re right - you either woke up or you died.

Then candles, gas lamps, and eventually electric lights opened up the darkness for meaningful work, while agricultural technology slowly pushed workers out to other fields (heh).

But out of necessity the hours for schools and markets were originally built around the hours of the fields, and it just stuck.

Now, don’t get me wrong - I think morning people are playing a hand in perpetuating this issue. They probably get to keep deciding the rules because they keep showing up before us, all energized and efficient and judging us for showing up late or tired. Or something.

But I would be curious to see if any studies have checked if there’s a correlation between sociopathy/narcissism and sleep phases, I’ll take a look. Or maybe they’re just signalling that they’re early risers as a way of feeling superior to the rest of us.

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