3/ I'd imagine that this comes down to tendencies we've evolved based on tribal politics. In the modern world, it might be great to trade labor for money and money for restaurant meals / cleaning services, but in a tribal society, to not DO is to be WORTHLESS.
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Replying to @MorlockP
But we get advice all the time in a great many ways, and that doesn't make us lazy. To me a person getting advice seems just as much an "agent" as one who doesn't.
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I am more responding to this sentence > But we chose to forgo the huge productivity gains often realized in military, school, and orphanage dorms, and instead we each did our own food, clothes, home decorations, etc. than to the topic of advice that your post centers on.
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I don't think anyone sees soldiers as lazy for not cooking their own meals.
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The sentence in question basically asked "why do soldiers not have a problem with outsourcing their meal production, but middle class people do?" my answer is conservation of agency. The soldier is doing high status work and can outsource meal production without loss of agency>
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Replying to @MorlockP @robinhanson
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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Replying to @MorlockP @robinhanson
to do this based on ancient norms of "I have to demonstrate that I can do SOMETHING"
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Are there poll questions you think might help test your theory?
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good question as a first stab at it, I could imagine: * cooking displays competence and agency, Y/N ? * mowing your lawn displays competence and agency, Y/N ? * cleaning toilets displays competence and agency, Y/N ? followed by >>>
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2/ imagine that you are transferred to a new job with the same hours and pay as now, but with less agency. Your new job provides one free home service. then ask which service they take paired with question reversed: transferred to job w less agency
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3/ my thesis predicts that if people are given a job with more agency (which is also perhaps more mentally exhausting) they are more likely to outsource high agency cooking, but if given a job w less agency, are LESS likely to outsource high agency cooking
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Replying to @MorlockP @robinhanson
I have certainly felt this desire for agency conservation, inchoately, looking back in my own life. I think you've coherently nailed it.
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