
Optimizing for Laziness
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
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Using Utility Function to Maximize the Milk You Could Get From a Cow
Despite being a cminus economic student, i know more about how the economy works or basic foundations of economics. This goes back almost 250 years to basic foundational economic principles. Adam smith talks about this in the wealth of nations. And he said that division of labor was the key to maximizing output. So if you're doing things you're not good at, things you hate doing, or things that somebody else could do cheaper, you actually diminish your output for that very reason. We're dividing it humans and technology. That was my profound ah when i read adam smith, and i thought, ye, we're still doing division of labor. We're just dividing labors between people.
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