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"Since when is my productivity his problem?" To be fair, unproductive citizens are society's problem in many ways, and he is part of society... Edit: Thanks f
by JimtheCoder 3y ago
"Since when is my productivity his problem?"
To be fair, unproductive citizens are society's problem in many ways, and he is part of society...
Edit: Thanks for downvotes.
- harvey9 3y agoYou've framed this like having a party on the weekend equates to being universally unproductive.
- JimtheCoder 3y agoI am not sure how you got that from my statement...
- jdiff 3y agoThe problem is caring about productivity too much.There's more to life than your work output. A minmaxed, micro-optimized life is a horribly miserable one.
- throwanem 3y agoThe downvotes encourage you to stop wasting society's time unproductively posting on Hacker News.
- JimtheCoder 3y agoSince my productivity should not matter to others, why bother wasting the time?
- throwanem 3y agoI should think you'd be pleased with a design in which correcting unsocial behavior requires so much less effort than perpetrating it.
- engineer_22 3y agoI upvoted you, I think the dogpile is unfair, you have a valid point. My opinion is western society has the most productive economic apparatus in History, maybe alcohol isn't so corrosive after all
- fuzztester 3y ago>My opinion is western society has the most productive economic apparatus in History Yes, in <pedantic>known history</pedantic>. And yes, if you ignore the negative externalities such as destruction of the environment, high obesity and other first-world killer diseases like heart attack, stroke, etc. Of course, other / developing countries are greedy and eager to emulate all that unsustainable shit, and are coming up fast on the radar screen often ignoring the remedial measures (for what they are worth) that the former countries are applying.