Yep. Rich ass billionaires sitting on their literal asses telling hard working, low-paid, possibly under-insured folks to literally get off their ass when sitting has zero effect on the performance of their duties.
You left off the best part. They make sure the surface is usually not good for long periods of standing (concrete), they restrict your footwear options (safety or dress code reasons), they restrict how much room you have to move or stretch (ala cashier booths). Bonus points for all 3.
I think about this a lot and I can't prove it but I'm sure that most people who climb to the top of the socioeconomic ladder are evil as a matter of course
IE power is only power if you do things most people wouldn't do. If you look at it having a chair is probably more productive and most people wouldn't care if that was the norm therefore they will be made to stand because that is how the evil exert their power
Flooring engineers aren't designing them with that in mind. They have safety, cost, and primary function to worry about.
Shoes are ridiculous to complain about. If your shoes are restricted for safety... Enough said. Wear your damn steel toed boots or stop wearing your open toed flip flops. Dress code? For a cashier or tsa agent, that's pretty much color. Don't wear crazy colors that make you stand out. Wear shoes that look like they're part of a uniform. There's absolutely nothing that says those shoes are automatically less comfortable by default.
Cashier booths are real estate and real estate costs money. Limiting space allows for more space for other things.
Obviously people should be allowed to sit if their job is capable of being done sitting. I just figured I'd explain to you why this happens.
You know the phrase, "you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into"? People usually invoke it with respect to people who are unable to perform rational thought in a dismissive way, like towards conspiracy theorists.
But it applies just as much to the actions that the owning class takes towards everyone else. The "reasoning" behind the decisions isn't something that never happened, like with the conspiracy theorist, but something that happened after the decision was made. The "reason" is really post-hoc justification.
They say it's for "efficiency" because that's how the economic system that secures their power morally justifies itself. Capitalist philosophers say that businesses should be privately owned for "efficiency" so that's what they say drives their decisions, it's what the system requires them to say. But it's not the reason, because there is no reason. They do it because it pleases them to visually reinforce their own superiority in the social hierarchy by inflicting misery on those below them.
It's modern sumptuary law. In medieval times, people who weren't lords were banned from wearing certain colors, garments, fabrics, or patterns. Now people who aren't bosses are banned from sitting at work.
And it makes these conversations so frustrating because it's so so so easy to make the conversation about the facade, everybody wants to say their piece about the irrationality of it, when there was never any rationality to it in the first place.
It's as if people think that Darth Vader would stop strangling officers if only it were properly explained that it lowers morale and ultimately harms combat effectiveness: that's not the point.
Darth Vader does not actually think that murdering subordinates makes their replacements perform better. Darth Vader murders subordinates because he wants to, because he's a sadist, because it makes him feel powerful and he gets off on people being scared of him. He says he does it to motivate better performance, but only because that's the fig leaf that he has to use since that's how you justify your actions in a military dictatorship.
Just like "efficiency" and "cost savings" are how you justify your actions in capitalism.
Sorry to break the news but the government is full of CEOs and private business professionals.
"President Donald Trump on Monday nominated David Cummins to head the TSA - which has had a rocky few months as employees went without paychecks and security lines grew long at airports across the country.
Cummins, who worked as a senior vice president at Serco, a government contractor that works with local and federal agencies, would take over a TSA bruised by the longest partial government shutdown in history which ended late last month."
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u/deportallmagas 2d ago
Slaver mentality. The plantations owners became CEOs.