1/ good essay, but a buried line in it: > I conclude from all this that we have a strong and increasing DIY norm. I agree, but I'm curious why. There's something in human nature that insists on conservation of DIY, likely as an expression of agency (IMO).https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1413234799523868682 …
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the insurance adjuster working in a cube all day, processing TPS forms, is doing something that does not register as having status or agency, and thus jealously guards a task that provides some measure of agency / status / skill signalling. I suggest that he may have a desire >
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to do this based on ancient norms of "I have to demonstrate that I can do SOMETHING"
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I'm not sure that's right in the specific context of the soldier. The soldier doesn't *have* a choice to cook his own meals. If the High Command decided it was important for soldiers to cook their own meals (for guerrilla units?), they would.
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The soldier gives up a *lot* of his agency while enlisted, but has some compensations for that. Some of those compensations may be increased agency in the future.
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This is fascinating to me as I am convinced cooking is a waste of my high status time but any time I tell folks this the response is horror!
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