Post #1552342
2026-04-09 18:51 UTC
@RosaCtrl Yeah I'm purposely cheating with the language here, sleeping or walking doesn't "produce" anything, and so it makes no sense to talk about it in terms of "productivity". We can take another ambiguous to stretch the example: Eating.
Eating doesn't produce anything, but many people enjoy it, are they productive? Is that a good thing? Well enjoying things is always a good thing, and in that case it makes no sense to talk about it in terms of what it produces. You could say it produces happiness and that's good enough.
But you could also literally produce things from eating:
Knowledge about how to cook different or better foodsReviewing restaurants and tourist placescreating entertainment or competitionInviting other people to eat fostering a sense of community
If you call productivity "the ability to produce" things like the above, I'd say all those sound like pretty good indicators of nice things
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@RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-09 20:14
@Andrev it does make sense to talk about in terms of productivity though, because you have only so many hours in a day, or in a life. To be clear I do believe productivity has rotten us all. I found myself constantly fighting against the idea that I have to be productive. Instead of enjoying what I’m doing, which is absolutely fucked up. I guess I was too radical with the options, but whenever someone says productivity something itches