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"a technology sub-culture that mostly doesn’t understand — or care much — about mental illness." I'd go a step further and suggest that North American business
by oinksoft 14y ago
"a technology sub-culture that mostly doesn’t understand — or care much — about mental illness."
I'd go a step further and suggest that North American business culture, if not North American culture at large (and there's a good argument to be made that the latter is circumscribed by the former), is guilty of this as well. I don't think it's at all exclusive to IT.
- BrokenPipe 14y agoDo you this is 'because' of purer capitalism ? Isn't that north american [business] culture at large ? As opposed to mixed capitalism/socialism in other western countries.
- oinksoft 14y agoI think that the old protestant work ethic, which of course is what originally made American capitalism so strong, is more to blame.
- ef4 14y agoThe data don't really support that theory. Some countries that are often held up as positive alternatives to "North American business culture" (like France) have higher suicide rates than the US. Whatever our business culture's failing are, causing more suicide is not high on the list, especially when you compare with the cultures of Asia and Eastern Europe.
- VMG 14y agoDo you know of any cultures that do understand mental illness?
- jerf 14y agoThis seems like just another instance of the excessively-specific adjective fallacy. I would submit that it is humanity as a whole that doesn't much understand or care much about mental illness.