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
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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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The possibility is there to live much more simply than before
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This seems related. Economic status determines how much you get away with/put on autopilot/not worry about.
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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.
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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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I think I disagree. There are a lot of things I just don't have to think about anymore: how to get somewhere, how I'll get home, where to eat...
In fact in 2019 as a practical person in a city you can throw out the entire bucket of car ownership which is 2000 little chores.
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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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A young 37 here. My everyday has become more filigreed. But I have also lost some of my nervous edge; evolved from squirting acid to trapping in amber or drowning in syrup. I guess you could say that I’m countering the surge detail through very deliberate slowness.
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