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It’s Curious, I wonder if as the portion of time people spend on hard problems increases the rate of burnout increases.

10 years ago a much larger percentage of my day was spent on non-taxing activities that have since been automated.

This speaks to the "labor" argument made above. More efficiency means harder work, but it must also be less work, unless we are trying to extract more from workers.

OTOH, it might not be so bad to extract more from workers. More money and all.

Exactly - if you can do more, you can get paid more.

You can get paid more, or the value can be passed on to shareholders. Depends.

I think so

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