“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
yeah trying to isolate what things about “administrative negative externalities” precisely make them so joy-killing
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I think it’s: (1) they are mostly obviously pointless, (2) they take much longer than they need to, (3) outcomes are unpredictable and out of your control, and (4) they can impose vast arbitrary costs. Everyone is doing taxes now, which is an obvious case.
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(I’m STILL working full-time to sort out my mother’s health insurance, health care, taxes, financial accounts, legal messes, … This has taken a full year out of my life so far. Ranty blog post will probably appear eventually)
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