• dasgoat@lemmy.world
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      ‘Prevents you from moving’

      Buddy I can walk just fine but if you ask my hypermobile and asthmatic ass to run, I’m just not going to. I can’t. My legs and lungs are fucked up. Guess I don’t get the extra bonus, oh well. Sucks.

      If you’re heavy, running can be a real challenge. ‘Promoting fitness’ isn’t done through a braindead scheme like this. Not for people who need guidance and help to get into a body shape they can be happy and healthy in.

      You know who will get the extra bonus? Healthy people who are able to run, and who have no health conditions to begin with.

      You are really, really underestimating the range of disabilities people can have while they can still function at their jobs. And how this braindead scheme excludes people for things outside of their control.

      And also, ‘not be a slob’. Am I a slob because I can’t just run a mile? You take my legs that bend like a silly straw and my lungs that collapse in on themselves and feel like they’re filled with cat litter that is on fire, and see if you run a mile.

      Jfc calling us slobs. Go fuck yourself.

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      1. Lmao NO. Disabled people work. We have this whole law about it and everything in the United States where employers have to provide reasonable accommodations and allow you time off work without compromising your job status.

      I’m disabled. I work full time. I could not fulfill these exercise requirements, but I can hold down a job. That is not a rare category of human being.

      We should have universal healthcare, not this nonsense from a private employer.

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      If you have a condition that prevents you from moving/ elevated heart rate, chances are you not working and already on disability.

      Ah, no. Plenty of us work. Desk jobs exist. I sit at one now. I have been told by my doctor I should not jog or run due to the impact to my knees.

      I understand the article says this but how do you police it. Put your fitness tracker to “Outdoor run” and call it day. Unless there are stricter measurements around heart rate and minimum speeds I don’t fully buy this.

      So you don’t know how they police it, but 1 sentence later you see how easy it is to police.

      So start. If a company is going to incentivize you to not be a slob maybe just go do it. Life isn’t fair. Stop making excuses and be a better version of yourself.

      Ah, the old “life isn’t fair” copout. Why should we not do our best to be fair?

      Idk, maybe they want their employees to not die of heart failure at 40 and see them grow to be old and successful.

      Ah, yes, because there is no daylight between the binary options of heart failure at 40 and growing old.

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          Clearly. I said likely, not “all”. Likely assumes situations in which that is not true which in this case is the exact thing you said. Thank you for reiterating.

          You still have it wrong. You can’t just show up and easily get disability benefits. And that statement still reinforces the lie that the disabled are lazy, when the disabled want to work. And that is only people that meet the definition of disabled. There are surely more people with physical limitations that don’t otherwise qualify as “disabled”.

          No where do they talk about this.

          They specifically say walking only gets 1:0.3 credit. How can you assume that is unpoliced when it is a specific policy? The logical assumption is that is IS policed since they took the time to give lesser credit to walking.

          Life isn’t fair. It’s not a cop out. Exceptions can and need to be made.

          And they have no exceptions. That is the point.

          So let’s just prevent all people in society from healthy activities because it discriminates. Let’s drag all of society down to the same playing field for fairness. Solid reasoning. You know what’s easier reasoning to reconcile. Exceptions to the rule.

          What a straw man. No one is preventing people from healthy activities.