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There's the reverse side too. Many experiences are unpleasant but I'd consider important for people to "enjoy". I don't have kids, but I think raising kids is a
by penagwin 7y ago
There's the reverse side too. Many experiences are unpleasant but I'd consider important for people to "enjoy". I don't have kids, but I think raising kids is a good example? No the direct experiences of being awake 24/7 picking up poop isn't fun, but the overall experience is what people are after?
- derefr 7y agoIMHO people are often (not always) after specific things that having raised kids provides—posterity, people who will take care of you when you’re old, etc.—and are actually not interested in any aspect of the experience of actually raising them. For people with such perspectives, I would say that what they experience is less like “something that was no fun in any part but still fun as a whole”, but rather “an input of a non-fun activity that is expected to pay out in happiness down the line”—in other words, the same kind of experience that working at a job to earn money is. As such, people (for whom this calculus works out) don’t actually have to be irrationally drawn to having kids by addictive brain signals. They have perfectly rational reasons to do so!
- jlokier 7y agoI think in many ways, you have just describe most jobs.