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The NYT reports that drugs like Adderall were once only prescribed to help children with attention deficit disorders focus on their school work but then college students found those drugs could increase their ability to study. Now a growing number of workers use them to help compete. What will happen as these drugs are more widely used in the workplace? According to Anjan Chatterjee, the use of neurotechnologies to enhance healthy people’s brain function could easily become widespread. "If anything, we worship workplace productivity by any means. Americans work longer hours and take fewer vacations than most others in the developed world. Why not add drugs to energize, focus and limit that annoying waste of time — sleep?" Julian Savulescu says that what defines human beings is their extraordinary cognitive power and their ability to enhance that power through reading, writing, computing and now smart drugs. "Eighty-five percent of Americans use caffeine. Nicotine and sugar are also cognitive enhancers," says Savulescu.
But cognitive neurologist Martha Farah, says that regular use on the job is an invitation to dependence. "I also worry about the effect of drug-fueled productivity on people other than the users," says Farah. "It is not hard to imagine a supervisor telling employees that this is the standard they should aspire to in their work, however they manage to do it (hint, hint). The eventual result will be a ratcheting up of “normal” productivity, where everyone uses (and the early adopters’ advantage is only fleeting)."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @04:34AM
Citation or you are a liar. Go ahead, just one source indicating that many or most i.e. over 50% of business owners are foreign born and started poor. Go!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @01:09PM
I am referring to the ones I know, I didn't mean it to be a general statement. Myself being a descendant of foreign parents my perspective in terms of whom I know will probably hold such a bias.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @01:42PM
Yet you made a general statement and have defended it repeatedly.
Do you not see what you are doing? Bias, moving the goalposts, outright lying, trying to cover and deflect. These are not good traits.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @03:32PM
I didn't lie, I never moved the goalposts, when did I cover and deflect anything. If you mean I later made certain clarifications what's wrong with that.
I agree I didn't communicate that this was my experience from the outset and that what I typed could reasonably be seen as a general statement but that's not how I meant it.