And both are probably correlated with being “people oriented” vs “things oriented”, and with the scale with psychopaths on one end, normies in the middle, and autists on the other end.
Mazes slow down progress, by redirecting human effort from improving things towards playing office politics. In recent years, we had greatest progress in computers, which is an area naturally attractive to many people on autistic spectrum. But these days everyone knows there is money in IT, so normies entered the field en masse, and now… even Google is kinda more famous for their office politics than their latest inventions.
And both are probably correlated with being “people oriented” vs “things oriented”, and with the scale with psychopaths on one end, normies in the middle, and autists on the other end.
Mazes slow down progress, by redirecting human effort from improving things towards playing office politics. In recent years, we had greatest progress in computers, which is an area naturally attractive to many people on autistic spectrum. But these days everyone knows there is money in IT, so normies entered the field en masse, and now… even Google is kinda more famous for their office politics than their latest inventions.