So the premise of the article is to literally take mind-altering drugs in order to become more valuable to your employer.
This is so fucked up.
This is so fucked up.
"In my view, the best methods to heighten creativity and increase your “out of the box” thinking are traditional, analog, and noninvasive. These methods can be found in John Dewey’s classic “How to Think” primer, first published in 1910 or even earlier from Rene’ Descartes’s Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and Seeking Truth in the Science."
The opening few paragraphs are just setting the stage. Showing you what crazy people get up to. A juicy dystopic vision to capture reader attention.
It literally is the premise.
>Its equilibrium exists for a reason, disrupting the equilibrium in order to "overclock" a part of it (cognition) must come with backlash of some sort.
But, maybe the reason was the limited caloric landscape of our ancestors. If I could turn a cup of olive oil into productive mental work my income and social group would approve.
Where does sexual selection still favor physical strength exclusively? Doesn't income dominate among developed countries?
"The potential for employer-mandated enhancers should force us to reflect deeply about the importance of work, the relative value of enhancers, and illusion of choice."