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Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
how about: no work
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
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I think working is important. But working for yourself, not a series of faceless C-Suite that would run you over for a dollar.
I like to work on my projects, or fix things in the house because I get a good feeling from that.
I would want to die if my job was to enter data in a software all day long.
Accomplishing things each day is good, but most of those things aren't work.
I still consider many of these things as work, where I need to put efforts in these things, unlike leisure activities such as watching a movie or playing a video game.
But I get what you are saying.
That's not how this works. We gotta work harder to be happy. /s
Its probably safe to extrapolate that repetitive daily stuff like grinding video games would be comparable to a repetitive job
You're comparing playing video games, an explicitly recreational activity, to mind numbingly boring jobs?
Filling up the same form hundreds of times is rather different than fighting virtual monsters. I did a shift covering workers at a printing house. My job for the day consisted of sitting on a chair and waiting for a machine to spit out a stack of magazines. When it did, I'd place a small piece of paper on top of the stack before it got wrapped in plastic, due to the regulations of the country the stacks were went to.
The machines were stuck all the time, so in practice, I sat in a chair and slapped a small piece of paper on a stack like 3-12 times an hour. There were no smart phones back then, and you wouldn't have been allowed to use one anyway. Even music was strictly forbidden, because you need to be alert because the machines are dangerous.
And that was a stress free boring job. Most jobs are super stressful and bosses demand more than you can do.
You can see the priorities of “work more” in this article versus the inverse headline here:
Routine jobs raise the risk of cognitive decline by 66% and dementia by 37%
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/health/brain-job-dementia-wellness/index.html
I think some German philosopher wrote a whole book about this in the 1800's.
"Karl" something, I think.
Oh shit...
Or maybe the sick and dementia prone tend to end up in menial jobs? I’m so tired of breathless “science” reporting on shitty correlational studies.