Your liver is pretty good at taking a beating, but it's a very strange organ. It works fine until it starts to fail and then it's all over. If you have any signs of liver damage, your liver is beginning to fail and it will decline rapidly.
I remember when I was told that I had "mild liver damage" and I took that as "damn, all these years spent drinking and I've only got mild liver damage? Well I can keep doing this"
Like some people can just have some beers in the fridge and leave them alone until they want one. I went to poland with one of my friends in 2015 and I was surprised to find out that he still had some of the bottles of vodka left. He said "I don't really like vodka that much". Yeah, me too. I hate the shit, the smell of it makes me sick. Didn't stop me from hiding plastic bottles of it in my car after work so I could sneak it in the house when my ex slept and then guzzle down a bottle of plastic infused, hot vodka.
I guess it probably feels the same way I feel about eating. I have some cake in my kitchen right now. I'm not eating it because I just dont want it. I could eat it but I don't really care.
It's weird.
Before modern tech and formal credit agencies like Experian or Equifax came along with credit scores, lenders had to do the work themselves.
If they wanted to size someone up, they’d dig into it call people whod lent to them before, speak directly to their bank and basically piece together a picture from whoever knew them. It was less about a number and more about what people were willing to say about you. Almost exactly like employment references.
The infrastructure to do this with employment already exists, we're just waiting for it to roll out. I can't speak for all countries, but in my country (UK), we have tax returns that show exactly
how long you've been working for a company. You can also spot irregularities in these tax returns such as people going on long term sick leave and of course - gaps in employment.
Just like credit scores, a new generation will come along and enter the workforce and they'll not know what life was like before the "simple and efficient" employment score system. They'll just assume it is a smooth and modern system rather than giving the phone number of former managers who may or may not still be employed/alive at a company that may or may not still exist.
Now for the neighsayers:
You will hear things like -
"I was thinking of taking 6 months off to travel", "Oh, I wouldn't do that, I heard it messes with your employment score"
"Job hopping is the only way to get a raise these days!", "Yeah, but it screws with your employment score and then nobody is going to want to hire you"