Naps are fine depending on the white collar work, how much is asynchronous, etc. Reasonable accommodations are usually possible as long as it’s not shift work.

Painkillers are an interesting question since we have direct to consumer ads (uncommon globally as it turns out) and for clearly some reasons, we get sicker than other nations independent of how capable medicine is.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/harvard-health-ad-watch-...

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

Sicker is doing some work, and I think the US has such a diversity of health cultures and outcomes, you almost need to do it by zip code, but that’s another topic.

>So what’s the cultural aspect? That for some reason Americans find this preferable to socialized healthcare

Alternative universe where WW2-era employer provided healthcare didn’t emerge, would you wager we would be there now?

> Naps are fine depending on the white collar work, how much is asynchronous, etc. Reasonable accommodations are usually possible as long as it’s not shift work.

Yeah, and it’s The people who are on their feet for a 12 hour shift who probably need it most.