At civilization level, progress is mostly 90% opportunistic steals, 10% disciplined drives. It’s only at the relative individual social mobility level that it looks like 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.
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We’re still collectively free-riding on a 150-year old “steal” — burning our very distant ancestors for fun and profit. The hard workers get a bit more of the fossil fuel pie for a lot higher effort. And we’re always paying off old externality debts and creating new ones.
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We’re paying for ancestral sins like the invention of religion, the food pyramid, etc. We’re bequeathing a high-carbon, destabilized environment for future generations to deal with. We’re a free-ride/pass-the-buck species.
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Most of what the protestant work ethic people consider productive work in the modern world is hideously destructive nonsense whose few useful functions could be replaced by random number generator without loss and sometimes with gain.
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I guess this only applies to "choosing" or "selection" tasks but that's a surprising number of things these days.
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humming birds drink so much sugar they are basically high all the time
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Nose to the grindstone mentality also helps keep the populace busy while they’re getting robbed/exploited/colonized/replaced (at which point you blame them for letting themselves become replaceable). Lazy people start getting “ideas” ...
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