added by Keely Adler · updated 4mo ago
Is Capitalism Making Us Sick?
we should also remember that so much of what we call ‘madness’ or ‘mental illness’ is actually just behaviour that does not lend itself well to the capitalist economic system
from This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy by Dazed
Keely Adler added
It’s not an accident that doing business today, and being in the workforce today, is more stressful than it used to be. Peter Whybrow, in his book American Mania: When More Is Not Enough, argues that many of the ills that we suffer from today have very little to do with the bad food we’re eating or the partially hydrogenated oils in our diet. Rathe
... See morefrom Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
The ‘mental health plague’ in capitalist societies would suggest that, instead of being the only social system that works, capitalism is inherently dysfunctional, and that the cost of it appearing to work is very high.
from Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? by Mark Fisher