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This study is very flawed. They claim there is a direct link, but they didn't control for alcohol and tobacco consumption. If you look at a map of tobacco consu
by douglaswlance 5y ago
This study is very flawed. They claim there is a direct link, but they didn't control for alcohol and tobacco consumption. If you look at a map of tobacco consumption vs. their map of deaths by overwork, they're very similar.
Lower income folks work more hours and are more likely to self-medicate. It isn't the additional hours that kill them, necessarily.
- lostmsu 5y agoSo it is possible there's an indirect link instead of a direct link. Still for practical purposes it might be that the intermediate step (e.g. self-destructive behavior) is extremely hard to get rid of.
- anigbrowl 5y agoArguably true, but given that people consume cigarettes as a mild(ish) fast-acting stimulant, it's certainly reasonable to treat overwork as a proximate cause.
- manquer 5y agoOverwork only directly kills you if there is workplace accident because you worked long hours and your attention slipped and you drove off the road/ machinery fell on you etc. Almost always overwork does not kill "directly", if your premise is alcohol and tobacco is not controlled, my question is then how much of alcohol or tobacco consumption is driven by overwork.