Wait, is this why we can never seem to get past 3% GDP growth?
B/c a huge percentage of our smartest people are utilizing their smarts to figure out how to coast as lazily through life as they can while optimizing their "observed personality"?
This explains a lot. But, it is not something I haven't suspected.
What would it take to change this? To allow productivity, growth, and proper compensation?
It is not just software engineering where this is a very common scenario, btw.
There's data that shows that people basically reach max happiness at only earnings of "merely" $80k, so of course there's no real need to try any harder even when you're getting paid more than that.
Bigger GDP is probably only possible by getting more people up to 80k.
B/c a huge percentage of our smartest people are utilizing their smarts to figure out how to coast as lazily through life as they can while optimizing their "observed personality"?
This explains a lot. But, it is not something I haven't suspected.
What would it take to change this? To allow productivity, growth, and proper compensation?
It is not just software engineering where this is a very common scenario, btw.
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