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0 pointslegitster4y ago0 comments

The Hedonistic Treadmill. We're incredibly richer, but we are wired to always want something nicer.

We can wash our clothes so much easier but we insist on washing them after every wear. The net result is the same amount of time spent washing clothes (but they are always nicer).

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varjag4y ago· 2 in thread

Except you don't wash them, you load and unload the machine. That's substantially less work (literally, in Joules) no matter how you dice it.

asdff4y ago

Its less work but if you do it multiple times as much its the same work or potentially more in a year.

varjag4y ago

You get to throw a lot of tees in until it even begins to approach rubbing your robe clean down in the river.

And setting on laundry is largely a fixed effort, whether you do one item or thirty. Most people don't do one at a time.

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