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Am I Boring You? (Ep. 225 Rebroadcast)

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Boredom Is an Economic Concept

Boredom is a way to signal that youre mismanaging scarce resources. Is there perhaps an upside to boredom? Boredom is useful, because don't want an organism who just does the same thing over and over again without learning anything. The word boredom actually doesn't even start occurring in the english language until the eighteenth century....

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