This reminds me of how Samsung got caught using AI to fake high quality pictures of the moon. Someone proved it by blurring an image of the moon, then taking a picture of the blurred image, and it came out with tons of detail.
This is an interesting example of how there is a difference betweena policy being a "heat pump" and a "resistive heater", and that both can occur simultaneously.
The problem with "heat pumps" is that they necessitate a "cold" side, from which they "pump the heat" to the "hot" side. Their goal isn't to increase the overall "heat" in the system, it's to move the "hot" all to one side.
A "resistive heater" can add "heat" to the system more evenly, but is less efficient and you won't see "temperatures" rise nearly as quickly.
I've heard of needing to stay for X years after Company pays for tuition.
I've heard of signing bonuses of $1-10k that only pay out if you stay for X years (dumb name, that's a "thank you for staying for 2 years" bonus, not a signing bonus).
I've heard of vesting schedules where the company helps you fund a 401k and annually increases the percentage you could take if you quit up to 100% after X years.
I have never heard of something as predatory as immediately approving your employees for a $100k loan at 0% APR that's only forgiven if they stay for 2 years.
I don't care how pretty the bow on the box is, it's still a box of poop.
If it were "if you decide to stay for 2 years" bonus, I don't think there'd be an issue
The issue is that it's really a "if we decide to keep you longer than 2 years" bonus, improperly named a "signing bonus."
It is paired with a real "bonus" or perk of sorts, but it's just a weird 2 year 0% APR loan that must be repaid in full at the end of the term, which works out to maybe $10k in risk free returns.
I would argue that offering your employees a massive loan that you might forgive but it depends if they like you, is incredibly predatory. Terrifying in fact. I guess less bad that giving $100k in cash and asking for it back out of nowhere. But only because it's in the contract.
Why? It's literally free money. Stick it into an low risk investment account or even a money market account, give it back at the end and keep the interest.
People should be held accountable for their own stupidity, and it's not like the company did anything deceptive AFAIU. If an adult doesn't understand what a loan is then that's on them (or their education, but that doesn't absolve their responsibility).
Wait, so the fact that banks offer loans to people, which they don't have to take is predatory then? The 0% APR for 2 years offers I get in the mail are predatory? This indeed must be terrifying for you, since those terrifying zero-interest offers of credit are in every store you go to, every bank you go to, and omg even in your own mailbox.
So again just to be clear what you're saying. A loan with interest is ok. A loan with zero interest where you might get a chance to have it forgiven if you are a top performer at work, is "incredibly predatory and terrifying?"
And by the way, for a guy selling his house for $3mil, having to give back $100k that he knew he might have to give back, after using it free for almost 2 years, is not "a massive loan." My wife and I spent $80k on refugee aid last year, and I don't have a $3mil house. It was an unplanned expense, but it changed our other spending or lifestyle in zero ways. It just means last year we didn't save as much for retirement as the year before.
After skimming the article, it seems like they are suggesting a connection between some established/known trends that makes it easier for a person with ADHD to develop dementia.
Known:
- Dementia has many lifestyle risk factors (poor education, hypertension, obesity, hearing loss, depression, diabetes, physical inactivity, smoking, drinking, social isolation)
- ADHD can make it easy to have certain lifestyles (addictions to drugs or food, trouble maintaining relationships, emotional dysregulation, poor education, poor work performance, high risk behavior)
That actually makes a lot of sense to me. ADHD can be phrased as a regulation disorder. Emotions, executive function/ attention. If anything internal (literally any kind of pain) presents itself for my attention, it wins. No contest.
I have nasty seasonal allergies (at least one per season). Whenever it flares up, the is a marked increase in my needs and decrease in my productivity. I'm hoping to start immunotherapy for them soon. I get my ADHD and my allergies from my dad and immunotherapy has done him wonders.
Meditative techniques can assist with the regulation of emotions/attention. I speak from experience. It takes practice when you’re feeling well to be able to channel it when you’re not feeling well. It’s not as hippy-dippy as you might think (unless you want it to be). No yoga mat required.
Fearmongering clickbait title. Should be "positive correlation found between ADHD/ASD diagnoses and inhibited metabolism of BPA". The trick is that ADHD and ASD are already known to be genetic. So it's way more likely that the genetic variation that contributes to ADHD/ASD coincidentally also contributes to a reduction in our ability to metabolize BPA. Not that BPA causes ADHD/ASD.
They bring forward the idea that standard/pure/repeatable items aren't intrinsically "good" or "enjoyable". But that doesn't make them not useful or valuable in other contexts.
It also offers some food for thought when it comes to what metrics we decide to put value in. We may like the idea of a particular metric, or what we think it represents, but that doesn't make it worth optimizing for.
A metric without context is useless, and taking a holistic view of what makes something worth doing allows us to make more informed decisions.
