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Who makes money by us being afraid to sit down? Makers of standing desks? http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
by stephengillie 9y ago
Who makes money by us being afraid to sit down? Makers of standing desks? http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- ioquatix 9y agoOr you can build your own? It's actually really easy to make a A-frame standing desk.
- hammock 9y agoGood one, the standing desk lobby is way too powerful imo
- askvictor 9y agoIt's time we stood up to Big Ergo.
- aklemm 9y agoJust because there are many lies out there doesn't mean it's all lies.
- 35bge57dtjku 9y agoUnless you're lying, too.
- pasquinelli 9y agoi agree with others that the standing desk industry doesn't hold much sway, but at the same time, if some experts say sitting is the most dangerous thing a person does in a day, then some experts are laughably stupid. why is this sort of thing so common? these articles taking a common fact of life and using it to tell their readers they're doing it wrong and killing themselves and everyone they love? why is that such a common tactic for getting eyeballs? i guess because it works. but is it good for people to injest so much of this? to be clear, i'm not saying that there aren't adverse health effects from sitting too much, and i'm sure there's good science to back that up, but there's a lot of good science, most of which never gets a writeup in bloomberg. so why do we get so much of "dangers of sitting", or "you're walking all wrong", and on and on?
- rtpg 9y agobecause in the past 30 years many more jobs have become just sitting around all day? Sitting around all day is a relatively new phenomenon. And more than just sitting, but sitting basically in the same place all day. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that office behavior is one of the main factors in your health, considering it's 8 hours of the day