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by woopah 11d ago
That's great to hear! It's awesome when people decide to tackle longer books. I think the matter of our (declining) attention spans and what it does to our spirit is something DFW thought a lot about, for example in this interview
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by woopah 11d ago
I suspect the author is reacting less to the decline of literature and cultural elitism specifically and more to the general decline of those critical thinking skills that you gain by engaging in difficult works. I actually don't think
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by woopah 1mo ago
Good point, I guess another way to reduce inequality is by your ruling party having an extremely ideological stance, pragmatics be damned, although I imagine most people wouldn't prefer this method
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by woopah 1mo ago
I think people also have a natural tendency to assume that the amount you are paid is correlated to how difficult the job is, which isn't quite true. The market value of a role has a lot of additional factors besides how intrinsically
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by woopah 1mo ago
Definitely agree with this! Given the pace of technological development, we should basically expect entire groups of people to constantly drop out of the competitive labor market. Don't get me wrong, new jobs will be created as well, b
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by woopah 1mo ago
While it's true that a lot of China's conveniences come from essentially labor market arbitrage and rural/urban inequality, the fact that the Netherlands can afford to attempt to reduce wealth inequality is a sign itself that
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by woopah 2mo ago
As always, correlation is not causation, so it's very possible that the people who tend to be happier also tend to maybe fit into society better and thus get higher paying jobs, not that you necessarily need to make X/year to be h
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by woopah 2mo ago
What about making it a daily style game where you have to guess which book the opening is from?
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by woopah 2mo ago
I also see the decline of reading, at least more "serious" long-form works, partly as an extension of the cult of productivity. Why read a 300 page book on something when you can get 75% of the main points in a 30s TikTok video? W
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by woopah 2mo ago
It was a pleasant surprise to see that the article wasn't about bashing on Bourdain at all. I was a little scared when I opened it. Like the author, I'm also a little conflicted about travel and tourism. I love seeing how other pe
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by woopah 3mo ago
I think this article mostly says what we already know about the negative effects of too much screen time, but I personally always struggle to follow the basic mitigating advice like look away every 20 minutes and exercise for a little bit e