Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
In a 2017 report that went widely unnoticed, a female captain in the Australian Army recommended a novel solution to combat stress: sex. More specifically, she wondered whether making sexual options, potentially including prostitution, available to soldiers in combat would help troops deal with downrange stress. You can read the report yourself here.
My understanding is that the original source of the article was in the Australian Army's official blog, but was pulled after it became, for reasons that are clear if you read the piece, extremely controversial.
Here's the thing: the author is not wrong. Well, not entirely, anyway.
As the article states, science shows that "sex helps satisfy personal, social and physical needs, reduces stress and is inextricably linked to physical and mental wellbeing." The thing is, the military brass doesn't see it that way.
Capitalism, is there anything it can't solve?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday July 05 2018, @04:41PM (1 child)
Common misconception. Corporations are not legally obligated to maximize quarterly or even long term profits; nor share values.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05 2018, @07:56PM
TMB is right.
Plus, think of how impossible it would be to judge actions that "maximize shareholdervalue."
Over what timeframe? Should the CEO be required to take actions that maximize profits over the next year but that set the company up for destruction 4 years later? Or should the horizon for maximized returns be 3 years from now? Then how the hell do you know in the present what it is the best action to take for such long-off results? The whole thing is unknowable -and- a balance is required between immediate returns and longterm returns. It's a judgement call, forever subjective.