ForensicOceanography comments on What are the most powerful lotuses?

[ForensicOceanography]

I’m willing to bet your town’s average wages are terrible in comparison to what you get doing nothing.

No, it is not that the wages are low, it is that they can not be fired (both for legal and for cultural reasons). So they do not risk to lose their wage by not working.

To clarify your position, are you saying that if more people were sick/​intoxicated then the quality of their work would deteriorate, but this does not really matter because there is sufficient slack in the system and nothing really bad would happen?

[Stuart Anderson]

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[ForensicOceanography]

My position is that everyone is already sick and intoxicated at work and we don’t notice or care most of the time.

I do not think this is true. I think that it is important that we clarify this point before continuing.

[Stuart Anderson]

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