[makeitdouble]

That's valid if you're too well off to have any other serious problem. And that's sure how we got most of our philosophy in the west, Descartes was is no way struggling to survive.

For comparison, double entry accounting was surely not invented through boredom.

[ilyt]

> For comparison, double entry accounting was surely not invented through boredom.

The man that invented it had time to spend writing books and not slaving away at work.

Your "for comparison" is same "a well off man did what they liked" as the thing you're comparing to.

[makeitdouble]

He was a merchant, and instead of writing a book actually did the thing and spread the practice:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping

[KineticLensman]

No, but perhaps from the tedium of trying to reconcile accounts managed without double-entry

[ilyt]

I'm pretty sure everything you and I think boring have someone interested in it enough to research.