“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
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whoa an ever-growing % of the economy is specifically being directed into increasing negative utility
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1/ My best aphorism to date, "civilization is the process of turning the incomprehensible into the arbitrary," admits several follow-ons


