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Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ... by ethbr1 on Monday October 23, 2023 @08:12AM (#37984544)
If I ever luck into wealth, I have a mad scientist social experiment I want to run.

Advertise a job, with midling-but-not-exceptional pay, and try the following with a few hundred people.

   - They report at exactly 9:00 am
   - They bring nothing with them
   - They enter a featureless room
   - They sit at a featureless desk
   - They sit there for 8 hours
   - They have 30 minutes for lunch
   - They have access to a featureless bathroom
   - They leave at the end of the day
   - They get paid weekly
The question is: how long would people willingly stay in that "job"?

My hypothesis is that it's a bimodal distribution. Some set of people would be perfectly fine with it, indefinitely. Some people would go batshit insane and quit quickly.

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Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ... by JohnFen on Monday October 23, 2023 @09:40AM (#37985468)
I wouldn't even consider such a job. For me, the worst possible job is one where I have nothing to do. I've had those, and they are a nightmare. I'd much rather be seriously overworked!
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Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ... by another2another on Monday October 23, 2023 @10:22AM (#37986043)
After a week or two, they'd probably call Sherlock Holmes.
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