Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
While I’m sure they’re overworked and underpaid, the guys at my factory with 30+ years are all heavy smokers and drinkers. Every year there’s at least 1 person that has a heart attack. Unions can fix work conditions but they can’t fix health conditions.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
See this other person’s comment: lemmy.world/comment/17139785
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I work the same exact job as my coworkers and don’t smoke and drink. If work conditions lead to smoking and drinking, then why is it only the old people outside at break time smoking?
They picked up bad habits in their youth, not because of job conditions, but a lack of education into their dangers. Where I live, 30 years ago restaurants asked customers “smoking or non-smoking?” It ain’t the work conditions that’s causing them to smoke a pack a day.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Not every person reacts to stress in the same ways. Good on you for not smoking or drinking! But why do you need to shame these people who, as you mentioned, grew up in a different time and without the knowledge of the dangers involved? Knowledge that was actively suppressed by the tobacco industry.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m not shaming anyone! I’m just saying the working conditions at my plant aren’t the reason my coworkers smoke and drink.
The idea in the linked comment seems to be that poor working conditions, leads to poor life decisions, leads to poor health, leads to early death. Therefore, early deaths are caused by poor working conditions.
My point is that poor life decisions aren’t necessarily caused by poor working conditions. Poor life decisions can be caused by other things, for example, lack of education.