“As income rises, people’s time use does not appear to shift toward activities that are associated with improved affect.” We are so dumb
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yeah trying to isolate what things about “administrative negative externalities” precisely make them so joy-killing
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I think it’s: (1) they are mostly obviously pointless, (2) they take much longer than they need to, (3) outcomes are unpredictable and out of your control, and (4) they can impose vast arbitrary costs. Everyone is doing taxes now, which is an obvious case.
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I mean, in addition to actual employment work, which for many/most people is also mostly dealing with the same stuff
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I don’t think my parents spent much time on this stuff, and I don’t remember having to do much before ~ the mid-90s either. Cheap mainframe computers have made it possible for govs & cos to impose huge amounts of pointless work on other people
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This is not my experience fwiw.
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I do often ask myself if I’m doing something wrong somehow! Can’t figure out what, if so.
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Trouble is, mechanization made it possible to work at scale, and humans really don't do that very well. The way we work around that is by communicating, which technology has also enabled at scale, so now our work is sorting through our communications to find the effects of work.
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That’s a really nice insight!
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Have a look at Ivan Illich "shadow work" (different from the Jungian type!) Like all the time on 'updating' at the behest of Apple and Microsoft
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interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_work … - especially thinking about how hard it is to disambiguate work and leisure
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