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by ip26 2586 days ago
Perhaps because we are endurance hunters, we are programmed from birth to seek comfort & idleness. The way I see it, we were "designed" to live in tension between wanting to be idle (to save energy), but having to be active to survive.

Once we became runaway successful, that tension between a need to be active & a desire to be idle started to disappear.