Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor

Cocopanda@futurology.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Your employer deliberately runs you into the ground because you’re overweight? How strange…

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  • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Came here to say this. I wouldn't be surprised if he became obese because of the 33 years he put into the job, always working and not having enough time to himself to self-care.

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What an odd, emotional response

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• SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are two stories here. One is that a middle aged man in poor health unexpectedly died right after finishing his shift. That’s the story you read. The other is that there is a systemic abuse of power by management to overwork higher seniority workers until they quit or are in too poor health to work. That’s the story I read.

  Also:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtScpL5o7cg

  Well, it’s your own damn fault you’re so damn fat
  Shame, shame, shame
  All the food on the shelf
  Was engineered for your health
  So, you’re gonna have to take the blame

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• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ugh, seriously. It seems like people don’t even have the time for self care anymore.

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  • SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    tl;dr: I 100% agree with you

    As quality of life declines, addictions will rise. Anything to stave off the cortisol and get a little more dopamine. Anything to make life a little less miserable. And the most socially acceptable addiction, the one they engineer daily to be more effective?

    Food

    And it’s totally fine to eat what you like, to have a big dinner with friends, to treat yourself. Until it isn’t. Until you cross an abstract threshold from socially acceptable to being a glutton. You wake up one morning and you’re a fat piece of shit draining resources and injuring nurses with your giant obese ass. Why didn’t you exercise a little self control? Why didn’t you go for a jog? Just exert a little willpower you lazy bastard. You deserve this. Actions have consequences.

    You deserve to die on the factory floor before you can collect a pension, you selfish asshole

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have eaten a consistent 2200 calories a day for about 6 years. I track everything every day. I’m a solid 165lbs.

      Except when I’m not. During a period of extremely high stress, I ended up at 190lbs. Same diet, but my body disagreed.

      Why? Because “calories in calories out” is the “frictionless plane and no air resistance” of the nutrition world. Sure, it’s accurate. But it’s also so simplistic as to be useless.

      So judge all you like, and you do seem to like it, but don’t pretend it’s as simple as “he ate too much so of course he died”.

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      • SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So judge all you like, and you do seem to like it

        Oh, sorry, my tone is difficult to read over text. I forget that sometimes. I was, in fact, speaking against condemning people for their dietary decisions. Processed food is engineered to be addictive and not provide long term benefit, and obesity is like the one sin people can still condemn others for indiscriminately. But yeah, easy to read my post as the opposite of that, my bad

        And man, yeah, weight fluctuating despite consistent caloric intake because of stress? Oh yes! Add to that the fact that a person has less mental bandwidth to give to dietary needs and it can become a negative feedback loop. I’m living that reality right now. Plus changes in metabolism from middle age. It sucks

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