• jqubed@lemmy.world
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    5 个月前

    It’s always a little wild to me to look at pre-computer offices, especially to think how tedious some tasks would’ve been when done by hand on paper

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      5 个月前

      Yup, but also remember: “tedious” = “relaxed pace”.

      We make things less tedious to get more efficiency out of our time. But the asymptote of the efficiency curve is living death.

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      Well back then they got paid more money to create less shareholder value, so it was okay to be that slow. These days we produce so much more wealth for billionaires, and we have to hustle to do it

    • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I mean, there is lot of tedium invented in the computer era as well, especially with paper-oriented digital workflow and WYSIWYG software.