I’m a bit worried about speaking too much on behalf of Zvi (also apologies if my OC came across overly harsh). A couple concepts that seem relevant to me:
legibility. I think this is less relevant to this conversation than I first thought (based on your other comment). i.e I think there’s a failure mode than comes from saying “Ah, I can make N dollars an hour. Is playing this game worth N dollars?” And somey people feel like they then have to justify the cost, and the N dollars is very concrete and easy to point to, but the other things aren’t, so the system ends up punishing illegible things. I think this may sometimes be relevant even if one has internalized that money isn’t the only universal metric.
Choices are bad – comparing things to other things that might have been is often unhelpful or at least costly.
I’m a bit worried about speaking too much on behalf of Zvi (also apologies if my OC came across overly harsh). A couple concepts that seem relevant to me:
legibility. I think this is less relevant to this conversation than I first thought (based on your other comment). i.e I think there’s a failure mode than comes from saying “Ah, I can make N dollars an hour. Is playing this game worth N dollars?” And somey people feel like they then have to justify the cost, and the N dollars is very concrete and easy to point to, but the other things aren’t, so the system ends up punishing illegible things. I think this may sometimes be relevant even if one has internalized that money isn’t the only universal metric.
Choices are bad – comparing things to other things that might have been is often unhelpful or at least costly.