if you make every american waste an hour on some topic every year, it's equivalent to thousands of deaths
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everyone wasting two hours a week on politics for a decade is equivalent to millions of deaths. literally millions
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mass political murder is here, it's just very evenly distributed
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democracy as reversed omelas
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@VesselOfSpirit Aren't wasted hours generally thought to have baseline value? -
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@VesselOfSpirit Muggles think navel picking time > in value than no life, so not all value of time is lost in wasted activity. -
@preinfarction oh i see. so i guess the claim is they're having fun -
@preinfarction which i don't know about. people who argue about politics seem pretty stressed out -
@VesselOfSpirit@preinfarction this speculation is stressful why are you forcing me to read it you murderer - End of conversation
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@VesselOfSpirit maybe but I bet the average value of alternative use of those wasted hours << average value of hours in typical human's life -
@aspasia_project hmm. maybe, maybe not. lots of hours spent on keeping life going, this is a reason to think marginal hours above average
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@VesselOfSpirit hmm. yeah. tag as speculative... although consider time preferences of commuters revealed by tolls http://www.king5.com/story/news/traffic/2015/09/28/commuters-405-tolls-clogging-free-lanes/73001114/ …
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