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by ANewFormation 548 days ago
The motivation there is money and time, not an aversion to labor.

Imagine any job paid as much as software. What would you do? For many of us the answer would be far more labor intensive - I prefer construction a million iin times over software, but software pays a million times better.

So our economic system coerces us into these sort of broadly sedentary behaviors, because that's where the money is.