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by mac01021 3032 days ago
Seriously?

Cooking, cleaning the house, mowing the lawn, driving to places, filling out tax returns, shopping for clothes or household goods....

Fully automated solutions for any of the above either do not exist or are prohibitively expensive.

2 comments

Why have kitchen/house/lawn/car at all when you don't actually enjoy using them?

The alternatives are not prohibitively expensive, on the contrary. You have restaurants, apartments, parks and public transport as alternatives.

It seems to me that quite some people here want to get rich to afford hiring people to manage things that they don't actually want to own. That's why I think more money doesn't make you more happy, as happiness comes from the sense of accomplishment, not from being able to command an army of workers to work on things you don't care about.

> It seems to me that quite some people here want to get rich to afford hiring people to manage things that they don't actually want to own.

That's often due to them actually wanting those things but not for themselves but for showing them off as status markers.

How many of those do you hate simply because you're time poor? If other necessities were met so you didn't have to work would you still hate them?

I'd still hate the tax returns, but others like cooking and mowing I enjoy when I'm free of time constraints.

Not OP but I have a lot of time and cooking is probably the thing I hate the most in my life after cleaning. I don't enjoy it at all.