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Easy mode will ruin your life
Convenience Frees Time
Some convenience is a real gain: washing machines took over the washing, and delivery brings shopping to the doorstep. The free time that creates is meant for building something, and it should not go to scrolling Instagram. A person keeps challenged by taking on worthwhile challenges.
The Motivation Problem
The harder part is motivation. If a little tablet plays the flute, solves any math problem, and plays chess better than you ever will, there is less reason to aim for mastery. The journey of getting better at anything gets difficult to sustain when you know a device does it better.
What Remains
Plenty of things are left. AI will not make you fit, so you still have to work out and manage your diet. It cannot yet run a business, which needs a visionary and a CEO who manages people, and it cannot do relationships, organizing, and being part of networks. ChatGPT cannot make a house. Until the robots come there is a window, and humanoid robots are already being built in large numbers in factories and warehouses around Shenzhen.
Why does effortless pleasure end in boredom?
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied people's experiences throughout the day by prompting them with pagers to report what they were doing and feeling. He found that people reported their deepest absorption, which he called flow, when a task's challenge matched their skill. Tasks that were too easy produced boredom, and tasks far too hard produced anxiety.
Why didn't appliances reduce housework hours?
Historian Ruth Schwartz Cowan examined this in her 1983 book More Work for Mother. She found that as washing machines and vacuum cleaners arrived, standards of cleanliness rose and housework expanded to fit. Joann Vanek's analysis of time-use surveys, published in Scientific American in 1974, found that hours of housework barely changed between the 1920s and the 1960s.
Why does mastery matter when machines do better?
Psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan developed self-determination theory, which holds that people have basic needs for competence, autonomy, and connection. Satisfaction comes from the sense of growing capable, not from the result alone. Marathons attract millions of runners even though motor vehicles cover the distance far faster.
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