Honestly the trick to chore splitting is to concentrate on equalizing frustration level first and effort second.
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Replying to @ComradeGorbash
I've actually thought about this and how the idea of comparative advantage from Econ 101 is poisonous in human relationships The joke "A compromise is an arrangement where everyone is equally miserable" is cynical but it's how it ultimately has to work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ComradeGorbash
If everyone does what makes the most sense for them to do, and this arrangement makes Person A very fulfilled and happy but it makes Person B constantly bored and miserable, Person B will eventually lose their shit It's human nature
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ComradeGorbash
If A is that fulfilled and happy all the time, doesn't that mean they have enough mental energy to take on a little more work to help B out?
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Replying to @Jesin00 @ComradeGorbash
The econ concept of comparative advantage is directly arguing against this, it's saying that it's a waste for Person A to ever do any task other than the one thing Person A is best at
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Like if Person A is a master chef then everyone benefits if Person A does nothing but cook Any day Person A doesn't cook and takes a turn cleaning up instead is a day everyone has to eat worse food for no good reason
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Meanwhile, since doing the dishes is a relatively easy job that anyone can do as well as anyone else, and Person B doesn't have anything they're particularly good at, it just makes sense that Person B do the dishes every time so that Person A can focus on cooking
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Comparative advantage translates into the stuff you hear about like "the 10x engineer" etc Basically that the really creative, difficult, complex jobs should only be done by people who are really really good at them, everyone else should get out of their way and do their chores
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It makes mathematical sense when you have it explained to you, if you accept all the underlying assumptions It's just that all the Person Bs out there will eventually find this psychologically intolerable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ComradeGorbash
I'm not proposing that A take time off from cooking to do the dishes. I'm proposing that A can do the cooking *and* half of the dishes.
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Well, at some point then Person A will tell Person B "If I'm cooking all the time and I'm also doing the dishes half the time why do I even keep you around"
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It bears repeating that the concept of comparative advantage was originally meant as an optimistic analysis of markets, saying that even if Person B is worse than Person A at literally everything, Person B can always do the jobs Person A wants to do less or gains less profit from
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So poor countries will always have *something* to trade with rich countries, there will always be *something* available on the job market for "unskilled" labor, etc "Someone has to clean the toilets in paradise", to quote Bioshock
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