Individuals with less enterprise, drive, education, health, emotional stability, etc. are more likely to become unemployed.

The hedonic treadmill continuously retreats under our feet, making us keep running while preventing us from ever getting to any fundamentally cheerier place.

It is a fearful problem for the ordinary person, with no special talents, to occupy himself, especially if he no longer has roots in the soil or in custom or in the beloved conventions of a traditional society.

Ich danke Gott an jedem Morgen, daß ich nicht brauch’ für’s Röm’sche Reich zu sorgen!45

We then made the obligatory reference to the John Maynard Keynes article that predicted that a 15-hour work week would be nearly upon us by now, following a century of strong economic progress. However,

experience.

example, it could be that any cognitive system that is capable of acting very much like a human being across a very wide set of situations and over extended periods of time, could only do so by performing computations that instantiate phenomenal

We, by contrast, we Homo cubiculi, needs must rely on self-discipline and structured incentives to get us to perform the requisite labors.

We say that X is a complement to Y if having more of Y makes extra units of X more valuable. A left shoe is a complement to a right shoe. If, instead, having more of X makes Y less valuable, we say that X and Y are substitutes. A lighter is a substitute for a box of matches.