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> the latter has much more opportunity to give himself breathing room to focus At first this just seemed like a kind of self-congratulatory post: 'Yes, sure,
by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> the latter has much more opportunity to give himself breathing room to focus
At first this just seemed like a kind of self-congratulatory post: 'Yes, sure, cognitive bandwidth is a finite limit that affects kings and beggars alike, but at least I'm accomplishing something with my life.' But then you pulled out this whopper.
Do you honestly think that someone who is concerned about feeding their children or paying their rent has more free time and bandwidth? Working professionals have their own, imagined stresses associated with pumping up their own importance, but these are much higher up Maslow's heirarchy than basic physical needs.
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- gjm11 13y agoI think the comment you're replying to says exactly the reverse of what you think it does. 1. Not "... but at least I'm accomplishing something in my life" but "... but the busy professionals have an important advantage: the stuff they're frantically doing is valued by other people, so that it gets them more money and more social status". 2. It's the busy professional, not the overworked underpaid poor person, that the comment says has "more opportunity to give himself breathing room to focus".
- alanctgardner2 13y agoMy god, that was easy to misread (not your post, GP). I realize he was referring to the immediately preceding sentence, where he inverted the order from the much more prominent list. Sorry GP.