One of the flaws of our culture is that we madly overrate convenience. We think everything should be as easy as possible. It is taken as self evident but if you

One of the flaws of our culture is that we madly overrate convenience. We think everything should be as easy as possible. It is taken as self evident but if you spend some thought on it it is hard to escape how important effort and accomplishment are. If we learn how to push ourselves we can take on slightly larger goals every time. Don't take my words as some kind of expert on the topic, if anything it reminds me constantly how damn lazy I am and how much worse it got. What kind of challenge you take up or find yourself in doesn't matter, it is all the same discipline. If I'm not careful the significant other will do all the house chores, cook the food and pay for everything. Imagine how appealing that sounds! This comment could have been a very lengthy article full of good references, the kind I haven't written in a long time. For this audience it could have used programming as it's context. What if after learning to read and write we would all learn to use a cli? Anyone could learn basic SQL and if we ever get the tools sorted out we could all consume API's. Very little effort and a huge reward. In stead some of us have to fight the html forms so that a baby can make very limited use of it. Lets have them type their name and their email and their address by hand? What horrific waste of time? We already force people to go to school and in some countries you have to join the military but after that we are free to never exercise again and stuff our face with any kind of food we want the year round. If we are financially successful we will never have to use our brain. Can get drunk and stoned every day.... wonderful? You can smoke, drink coffee and watch tiktok indefinetly... at least until any kind of challenge presents it self. Then ur fucked. Not very funny in a personal context but as a society or a culture things should get rather bizarre as we pile up more and more convenience. We already have to import people to do the work. It seems cheap universal healthcare isn't as hard as it seems. Putting out a small fire and cleaning up is cheaper than letting the entire city burn down before doing anything.