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For the Brain, Cash Is Good, Status Is Better
- muerdeme 18y agoThis seems intuitive if you consider that social standing is generally more important for procreation. He notes that this new insight into how the brain processes social standing may have important public health consequences, possibly even paving the way to new stress-reduction therapies. The prospect of the government trying to reduce public stress by making sure everyone gets laid makes me laugh.
- asdflkj 18y agoDoes it make you laugh because it's unlikely, or because it's a bad idea? Because it strikes me as a decidedly good idea. Mood disorders are a medical problem, and the source of those for many people is in not getting laid. In a system with socialized healthcare, this is government's problem. And it's not like the solution is hard to come up with, either.
- daniel-cussen 18y agoThis is reminiscent of Pantaleon y las visitadores. It's a military dude in Peru who has to get a squad of prostitutes together to keep the soldiers in other squads from misbehaving.
- attack 18y agohttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6990802.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6990802.stm
- baha_man 18y ago'So what's more important — money or social standing?' - aren't they the same thing, at least in modern America?
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoI hope to someday live in a society where sex is 100% consequence free for both men and women.