That smoking is bad for them. You'd just be banging your head against their socially-acceptable-at-the-time drug addiction.
Person from 2020 magically appearing in 2090 and being told caffeine/excessive sugar is now regulated and ID checked
I'd be okay without excess sugar, but I'm a firm believer that it is virtually impossible (for me) to function in modern society without caffeine. Our bodies want to sleep when we're tired, but I have never had a job where I could say "I'm tired. I'm going to nap and come back in 8 hours."
You know you can sleep at night and work during the day right?
Also napping isn’t sleeping for 8 hours.
You (and a lot of people tbf) need caffeine to stay awake mostly because your body gets used to it and then can’t function without it. Plenty of people do just fine without caffeine or other substances. It’s not magic and we’re not super humans or anything. We just don’t drink caffeine multiple times a day every day
I guess my point is that with work, personal obligations, family, etc, there aren't enough hours in the day to so what needs to be done and still just sleep and wake up when you're no longer tired.
It's great that it works for you, but it just never has for me. Also, to be fair, it's been 20 years since I worked a job with a regular 9-5 schedule, so I'm admittedly biased.
I would argue those of us on a shifted circadian rhythm that lags 4 hours behind the farmer personalities in our society need caffeine to fit into the rigid corporate structure those first hours of the work day, and those high pressure professionals, VCs, high tech biotech silicon valley wall street types need caffeine (and cocaine for some lol) to function in their 17h 6-7 day work weeks (not me). I just take a caffeine break on vacations to reset my sensitivity and then slowly build up over the next 6 months to a pot of coffee all the way through before bed time to function.
90%+ of the population does not fall into that category though.
How would you regulare excessive sugar? Have a weekly quota of sugar that can be contained in food you purchase? Are they going to ban growing fruits?
Taxes on sugar beets and standards for manufactured foodstuffs, I'd assume. Chopping down the apple tree in your front yard is clearly absurd (or is it? I'm not sure what's too absurd to happen anymore...), but saying that any loaf of bread with more than 20g of sugar must be labeled "cake" and taxed as such? That type of thing has already been happening for years.
Ration books. If they're from the 50s they'll probably understand.
Grew up in the 50s and 60s. Had a pediatrician who chain-smoked, and had ashtrays all over her office literally overflowing with butts.
I read your response and immediately thought of homosexuality. That would be hard to explain, why now we have a big pride parade celebrating it. (Im gay, dont com at me!)
That smoking is bad for them. You'd just be banging your head against their socially-acceptable-at-the-time drug addiction.
Person from 2020 magically appearing in 2090 and being told caffeine/excessive sugar is now regulated and ID checked
I'd be okay without excess sugar, but I'm a firm believer that it is virtually impossible (for me) to function in modern society without caffeine. Our bodies want to sleep when we're tired, but I have never had a job where I could say "I'm tired. I'm going to nap and come back in 8 hours."
You know you can sleep at night and work during the day right?
Also napping isn’t sleeping for 8 hours.
You (and a lot of people tbf) need caffeine to stay awake mostly because your body gets used to it and then can’t function without it. Plenty of people do just fine without caffeine or other substances. It’s not magic and we’re not super humans or anything. We just don’t drink caffeine multiple times a day every day
I guess my point is that with work, personal obligations, family, etc, there aren't enough hours in the day to so what needs to be done and still just sleep and wake up when you're no longer tired.
It's great that it works for you, but it just never has for me. Also, to be fair, it's been 20 years since I worked a job with a regular 9-5 schedule, so I'm admittedly biased.
I would argue those of us on a shifted circadian rhythm that lags 4 hours behind the farmer personalities in our society need caffeine to fit into the rigid corporate structure those first hours of the work day, and those high pressure professionals, VCs, high tech biotech silicon valley wall street types need caffeine (and cocaine for some lol) to function in their 17h 6-7 day work weeks (not me). I just take a caffeine break on vacations to reset my sensitivity and then slowly build up over the next 6 months to a pot of coffee all the way through before bed time to function.
90%+ of the population does not fall into that category though.
How would you regulare excessive sugar? Have a weekly quota of sugar that can be contained in food you purchase? Are they going to ban growing fruits?
Taxes on sugar beets and standards for manufactured foodstuffs, I'd assume. Chopping down the apple tree in your front yard is clearly absurd (or is it? I'm not sure what's too absurd to happen anymore...), but saying that any loaf of bread with more than 20g of sugar must be labeled "cake" and taxed as such? That type of thing has already been happening for years.
Ration books. If they're from the 50s they'll probably understand.
Grew up in the 50s and 60s. Had a pediatrician who chain-smoked, and had ashtrays all over her office literally overflowing with butts.
I read your response and immediately thought of homosexuality. That would be hard to explain, why now we have a big pride parade celebrating it. (Im gay, dont com at me!)
Seems like this was already know in '47
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