Most people are not lazy enough. The kind of relentlessly effortful living conservatives love to preach is unnatural except perhaps for hummingbirds. Half of survival of the fittest is the patience to wait for the steals and deals and moments of unreasonable leverage.
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Most of what the protestant work ethic people consider productive work in the modern world is hideously destructive nonsense whose few useful functions could be replaced by random number generator without loss and sometimes with gain.
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I guess this only applies to "choosing" or "selection" tasks but that's a surprising number of things these days.
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