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> No it doesn't require that because the vast majority of people aren't rational actors and they don't optimize for the quality of their work - they optimize fo
by legacynl 1y ago
> No it doesn't require that because the vast majority of people aren't rational actors and they don't optimize for the quality of their work - they optimize for their own comfort and emotional experience.
People are rational, and the example you give actually shows that; they prefer reduced workload, so they optimize for their own comfort and emotional experience. What isn't rational about that?
- dns_snek 1y ago> What isn't rational about that? If people made decisions the way you described, by carefully considering and accepting trade-offs then I would agree that they are rational actors. But people don't do that, they pick an outcome they prefer and try to rationalize it afterwards by claiming that trade-offs don't exist.