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It's going to be okay. The wonder of the Internet is that you can create small communities found among the billions that inhabit the Earth. And your communities
by renewiltord 2y ago
It's going to be okay. The wonder of the Internet is that you can create small communities found among the billions that inhabit the Earth. And your communities can create small areas of deep interest. The drive to make something a certain way is built into many of us as humans. It will not break in the face of some degree of standard quality.
As an example of a triviality:
Costco has pens to put your cart in. They also have people going around retrieving carts. They then have a tractor move the carts to where people can take them into the store. Many people leave their carts in the pens. Some do not. The other day, the carts were overflowing from the pen I'd walked to, but I could see the reason was that there were two carts misaligned deep in the pen.
A valid and reasonable thing to do is to have gone to a different pen. Many would have accepted adding my cart to the overflow as well. But a desire for order caused me to realign the carts and solve the overflow. If I had not, nothing much would have gone wrong. Because I did, no greater result was created.
I am paid a large sum of money and any marginal additional time I spend I can create more money (since I work in HFT). The cart wrangler is paid very little. It is not comparatively advantageous. The work was wasted work, in some sense. But I had to do it. I was compelled to do so.
This is a useless thing, but there are people who feel that desire I felt there who will feel it for other things. To make a better-sounding piano, the perfect dish, to master joinery. And things will be good for them and those they serve.
And that is good. And that is enough. Because total utility is the integral of utility across all. And less individual over more participants can sum to higher overall utility.