> Seriously. I'm dumbfounded that we had to regress all the way to this point in order to discover why the social norm existed in the first place.

Is that a bad thing? It's good to question social norms...as long as you're open to coming around to the idea that they might be well founded.

It's hardly a social norm. LSD was discovered in our lifetimes, and hasn't yet reached its peak popularity, I don't think, due to legal status quashing its growth. Its omission from the workplace is hardly a well-established norm because its presence—basically, anywhere—is hardly a well-established norm.

The workplace, meanwhile, is far, far from finished in development. I expect it'll be unrecognizable by the end of the century, and who knows what molecules might join caffeine?