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?
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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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So that's where all the surplus went! Wonder if any futurist predicted this.
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Is this more significant in the US than some other places? If so, maybe cause those variables have larger values?
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"JavaScript fatigue" but for real life (it's actually the same set of processes in both cases: break everything down into independent choices, and ignore the fact that choosing takes more effort than the gain most people achieve from having "better" options)
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