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> It would be better to adjust the environment.

Adjusting the environment is much more difficult and, in many cases, simply impossible.

To paraphrase an old folk tale, what is easier: making the entire land-surface of the Earth easier to walk on, or just putting shoes on one's feet?

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Sure, but fixing the bigger problems, such as stress in the workplace, would have many more benefits.

Ans as far as the analogy goes, it might be hard to fix the entire surface of the earth, but that's a strawman, because we have plenty of urbanised and indoor areas where you don't need shoes.

What's the easiest? To cover the entire earth in asphalt, or make all cars be 4wd?

I think it's more like the stress in the workplace (for example) is caused by two things. Greedy or power hungry people deliberately harming others (for example) and then other people over reacting to this but also to just the normal shit you have to deal with anyway. So the mindfulness is to deal with the over reaction but ethics and morality are needed to deal with the action. You need both, seems to be the criticism that some people are making about having mindfulness without some ethical framework like Buddhism.

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