Re:Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy
by WalterBright on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:51PM
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> What isn't necessarily true is that any particular person at any particular time is performing, even subconsciously, a cost benefit analysis.
Every time a person makes a decision, they are doing a cost benefit analysis, regardless of whether they are aware of it or not.
> What I'm trying to get across is that it is the preference of the vast majority of human beings to not be so performing all the time.
It is true that many people (including me) prefer to "wing" decisions because they don't want to expend effort on it. But that itself is yet another cost-benefit decision.
Every time a person makes a decision, they are doing a cost benefit analysis, regardless of whether they are aware of it or not.
> What I'm trying to get across is that it is the preference of the vast majority of human beings to not be so performing all the time.
It is true that many people (including me) prefer to "wing" decisions because they don't want to expend effort on it. But that itself is yet another cost-benefit decision.