A doctor told me that if you aren’t asleep after 20 mins, you should get out of bed and do something quiet til you are tired. So you learn to associate being in bed with sleep.

Or as someone else told me: beds are for sleeping, sex and dying.

You’re missing a major incentive. Over the course of several decades, laws prohibiting discriminatory behavior internally and externally were passed. At the same time, unions became less militant and less democratic. So workers try to turn to the new laws to stand up for themselves. Especially middle- and upper- sections because they have the independent resources and systemic support.

The various waves of HR interventions are defenses against the above. Polices, trainings, disciplines, hiring practices, codes of conduct etc. Which are implemented in ways that are unserious, under-resourced, lots of loopsholes, designed to breed resentment, etc. But enough that if there is a problem, the boss can say “we did everything we could”. So any legal consequences will be eliminated or reduced.

Rainbow capitalism is a slightly different situation but in context of the above. After the western AIDS crisis settled down, LGBTQ+ leadership was entirely seized by wealthy people who were the least dead and least traumatized of everyone. They took advantage of work done by others to benefit their own individual positions.

It’s all in the context of capitalism being inherently about exploitation. There is no such thing as a woke corporation. it can’t happen.

I remember talking about this with friends 10+ years ago. Haven’t noticed it or heard anyone else mention it since, but I don’t know why.

When Oxford was about to liberate its covid vaccine recipe to enable local production in the global south, bill gates swooped in to talk them down. One of his arguments that ultimately won the day is that global south people are too stupid and irresponsible to be in charge of important medicine like that.

This photo is staged to reinforced that kind of stereotype.

I commend your web search skills!

With that info we can post a better photo taken within moments of the above:

Which shows medications being stored in a normal way in boxes which are neatly stacked and organized on shelves.

The med salad colander thing still completely inexplicable. It doesn’t play any role in the workflow according to the photos I saw. It is a chaotic and dangerous way of storing medication. I hypothesize it is staged for the benefit of the photographer, likely with some art direction from her.

I know it’s just a third party photo on a summary article but the photographer “Barbara Debout/AFP/Getty Images” is seriously fucked in the head. The idea that anyone would ever break up a bunch of blister packs of random medications and put them in a colander like some sort of chronic disease salad is insane. For context, we see the dark skin and bold printed clothing. Is there any explanation for this which isn’t wildly racist?

There’s a perfectly non-racist image included in the actual paper: