> When you get more productive, leisure's opportunity costs skyrocket. Every pause carries an invisible price tag that flickers in your peripheral vision.
I'd love it if this turns out that this single concept has already been given a name by somebody somewhere.
HN is filled with hundreds of links to individual blogs rediscovering Econ 101 and Econ 201 concepts every week.
loloquwowndueo · 33d ago
> When an hour of work generates what once took days, rest becomes luxury taxed by your own conscience. Every pause carries an invisible price tag that flickers in your peripheral vision.
So yeah but only if you get paid by the hour. I have a fixed salary, I don’t work on weekends - so I’m not spending every hour Saturday thinking “gee I’m wasting such a huge amount of money just sitting here watching the birds”
kwerk · 33d ago
opportunity cost comes to mind
Joker_vD · 33d ago
> Traditional economics might predict that AI-boosted productivity would reduce working hours, a four-day weekend for tasks that once took five days.
The funny thing is, there have been precedents: invention of typewriters/telephones, then computerization, then the Internet, — and the work only ever expanded. And now there is AI. Well, you know, what they say: when you've got a willing horse, whip it for another ten miles; surely this works with human workers as well.
sam_lowry_ · 33d ago
Reminds me of Bertrand Russell and his essay In Praise of Idleness
I'd love it if this turns out that this single concept has already been given a name by somebody somewhere.
Of course it has.
HN is filled with hundreds of links to individual blogs rediscovering Econ 101 and Econ 201 concepts every week.
So yeah but only if you get paid by the hour. I have a fixed salary, I don’t work on weekends - so I’m not spending every hour Saturday thinking “gee I’m wasting such a huge amount of money just sitting here watching the birds”
The funny thing is, there have been precedents: invention of typewriters/telephones, then computerization, then the Internet, — and the work only ever expanded. And now there is AI. Well, you know, what they say: when you've got a willing horse, whip it for another ten miles; surely this works with human workers as well.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Bertrand%20Russell%20-%20In%2...
https://components.one/posts/gamer-and-nihilist-product-hunt
um, ok