Yeah this is gross. Like the other commenter said, pretty thinly veiled excuse to freely test on humans without human consent.

Mentioning testing on a “legally dead” person (without mentioning their own prior consent, like even organ donation), then questioning why we should have empathy for things that “just look human” or “just have human DNA” is wild, to put it lightly.

MIT publishing this even as an opinion piece is signaling a pretty quick return to blatant eugenicist attitudes and using live people as lab subjects because they’re rationalized as “not really people.” Ick

Was employee happiness with wages factored into this? I would be a lot more okay dealing with bullshit music for $23/hr than I would be at $10/hr.

The other factor for this would be properly allowing accommodations for employees. Not having any escape, reprieve or say sucks, but can be managed with earbuds/earplugs or occasionally queueing up a preferred song.

Guessing “This Generation” is mid-late Millennials lol considering the Postal 2 guy. Highly approve

Psychosomatic is the 21st century version of “hysterical.” It’s 100% bullshit. It is not a legitimate diagnosis but rather a term weaponized against patients.

Using it should be grounds for license revocation, but society isn’t ready for that.