Free drugs for being a good cog? Man now we are talking business perks.
Nicotine : one of the only drugs that makes you a better slave ; therefore, one of the very few legal ones.
I’m holding out for free cocaine
Now that’s some cyberpunk dystopian shit. Corpos drugging up employees for productivity.
I mean that’s not new - tech companies will still advertise “coffee on tap” as a perk to work for them
Can confirm, my time at microslop in the mid 2000s included break rooms with coolers full of every caffeinated beverage you can think of.
Hey with the added benefit of addiction they can’t afford to leave the office now!
in the 1960s American cigarette companies used to leave free packs of cigarettes in freshman dorms at the beginning of the school year because at least some of them would get bored and try it.
Who’s actually going to use these if they’re not already a smoker / vaper? Maybe they’re just providing them so people don’t have to get up and go outside for 5-10 minutes to smoke.
the whole idea of a coffee ‘break’ was created to pump stimulants into workers to improve productivity.
I think it is the unintended side effect of taking a short break which actually increases productivity.
There are studys that show that constant coffein consumption just make being caffeinated the new normal.
This is why my days are mostly breaks anymore. You should see how productive I am!
for anyone just interested in reading a recent study on the effects of nicotine.
I found this review paper interesting and I don’t doubt that nicotine can have therapeutic effects but the funding source worried me.
Conflict of interest
Authors YC, XW, XZ, HT, YZ, JZ, and SZ were employed China Tobacco Anhui Industrial Co., Ltd.
The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
The authors declare that this study received funding from Technology Project of Anhui Zhongyan Industry Co., Ltd. The funder had the involvement in the study design, data analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript.
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