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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Jul 2019
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    Life seems to have gotten significantly more complicated in the last 15 years in general, after controlling for personal changes like aging/life-stage. Other things being equal, there’s just a lot more detail and choices to manage Anyone disagree?

    8:54 PM - 17 Jul 2019
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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Jul 2019
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        Jevons paradox + software eating world + shrinking institutional control of life + laissez faire economy + gig economy = you’re spending half your time just configuring and reconfiguring your life

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      2. Rahul Ramchandani‏ @Rahul_Ramc 17 Jul 2019
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        Rahul Ramchandani Retweeted Yaneer Bar-Yam

        This seems related. Economic status determines how much you get away with/put on autopilot/not worry about.https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1144250747984449536?s=21 …

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        Yaneer Bar-Yam @yaneerbaryam
        Money is scale: Larger scales can ignore small impacts. The poorer you are, the greater the complexity. The wealthier you are, the lower the complexity. pic.twitter.com/lgnGjsvSso
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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Jul 2019
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        Yeah precisely. And as complexity goes up, the same amount of $ buys you less freedom from detail.

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      2. James Stuber‏ @uberstuber 17 Jul 2019
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        The possibility is there to live much more simply than before

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Jul 2019
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        Takes a ton of money to life simply

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      2. neil21‏ @neil21 17 Jul 2019
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        Jeans guy TED talk. “I want the kind that used to be the only kind.”

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Jul 2019
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        That a real talk?

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      2. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 18 Jul 2019
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        Strongly agree based on my limited perspective, which might also correlate with life stage. The prospect of finding meaningful + rewarding employment feels approximately 20-30x harder than I thought it would be 15 years ago when just doing well in school seemed like enough.

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      3. Akshay‏ @hyperindexed 18 Jul 2019
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        Doing well in school == the halcyon days of univariate life optimization...

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      1. Srinivas (85/15 is 50/50)‏ @maxsrinivas 17 Jul 2019
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        This too shall pass 🙃

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