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(authors don’t count exercise as affect-improving so I’m a bit suspicious of this claim)
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“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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Seems to me that all the time saved by mechanization has been taken up with administrative negative externalities. Everyone spends 20 hours/week dealing with dysfunctional institutions that demand form-filling and phone calls with low-level bureaucratic staff
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yeah trying to isolate what things about “administrative negative externalities” precisely make them so joy-killing
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are you saying love of money is the root of all evil cus that's what i'm hearing
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it’s amazing that markets work so well given that people seem to lack the basic ability to make beneficial hedonic tradeoffs
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The thing that increased my income brought me into contact with problems I don't know how to deal with (yet), so of course I'm uncomfortable and stressed about it I mean n=1, ymmv, etc tldr lol but still
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(I got voluntold into management, so now I don't have time to do what I'm good at and also have to decide whether to fire people)
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Hmm evolution wouldn't optimize for affect, it's not that surprising
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