Adults who use a standing desk

American adults at standing desks and American broiler chickens being produced, both expanding. The chicken does not, statistically, have an opinion on ergonomic furniture. The standing-desk user is, on average, eating the chicken. The system, again, is closed.

Standing-desk adoption grew from a small minority of US adults in 2010 to a meaningful workplace category by 2022 as the sit-is-the-new-smoking discourse and IKEA Bekant lowered the cost of entry. US broiler chicken production climbed from about 36 to over 44 billion pounds in the same window as poultry continued to displace beef on per-capita protein consumption. Two unrelated lines: one ergonomic, one agricultural, sharing a decade because the same 2010s were busy upgrading the desk and the dinner plate at once. Different surfaces, same century.

The desk and the dinner both got optimised. The decade was good to anyone selling improvement.