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It isn't clear what we should optimize on. Do people sit around and play video games, or do they create new things? The "idleness" seen in playing video g
by mrtron 11y ago
It isn't clear what we should optimize on.
Do people sit around and play video games, or do they create new things?
The "idleness" seen in playing video games seems very close to most jobs. Many factory jobs have more mental idleness and less fulfillment than a video game.
- Natsu 11y agoYes, working at a factory production line is utterly mind-numbing (I speak from experience) even if one is bored enough to use the spare brainpower to perform all sorts of microoptimizations, but at the end of the day, one provides people with goods and the other uses up electricity to provide entertainment, so the value to everyone else isn't the same. And we do need to provide each other with value, or there won't be enough things to buy no matter how many dollars we have.