Capitalism drives us to Addiction (audio)

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Their Profits Are Making Us Sick

(Speakout-now.org, Feb. 13, 2012)
We are all becoming more sick and tired. Attacks to our health are happening on every level -- whether from the boss, the politicians, or the insurance companies. Our quality of life is being stolen from us only to further fill the bank accounts of the rich. And it is literally making us sick.

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To the rich our health is another source of untapped profit, so we are being pushed to our limits. Work itself has been making us sick. We are doing more work to make up for staff cuts, and we are more stressed because of it.

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The latest figures show that workers are doing the most work since 1929, when statistics were first recorded. Many of us are getting hurt on the job. And more than ever we work through it because we need the money to pay for our rising costs of care.

But the more stressed out and sleep deprived we get, the more we get sick.

At the same time our breaks are being rushed or skipped, and we are finding ourselves eating whatever is quick and cheap -- rather than what is healthy. We load up on more caffeine, increasing our daily doses of soda, coffee, energy shots, and No Doze pills. Constantly doing more with less, energy (-robbing) drink sales increased over 30 percent last year. More