This feels like it’s missing something important to me. I can say the object level things that feel off, but suspect this is more of a frame disagreement situation (which I expect to be hard).
On the straightforward, factual level:
I think how well people can deal things is very contingent on their environment. In a world where they are constantly under pressure from a bunch of people with varying degrees of distrust, I think it can be really hard to deal with things. If they’re in an environment where they more or less get to directly control their life, I expect them to fare much better. Both because they object-level get to live in ways that are good for them, and also because having self-directed-efficacy is good for people even if they don’t get to use it to live exactly how they want.
When I imagine people splitting into sub-houses, I’m not imagining everyone splitting up based purely on how well they handle stress. I’m also imagining them splitting up based on what other things they actually want, and what style of stress management they prefer. i.e.
...do they prefer staying in their original home?
...do they prefer long walks in nature?
...do they prefer easy access to outdoor walks, or indoor hangouts, without other in person friends? Or are videocalls a good enough way to be social? Do they even care about being social?
...do they really want to remain in a city where they have lots of social or professional connections?
People vary on a lot of axes, and they form subgroups that enable each subgroup to thrive without as many competing access needs.
And then there’s the fact that smaller groups just requires less negotiation, period.
I agree that this a dimension along which things can improve orthogonal to stress-capacity, and if improvement along this dimension reduces stress-level enough, the original problem can go away to a large extent.
This feels like it’s missing something important to me. I can say the object level things that feel off, but suspect this is more of a frame disagreement situation (which I expect to be hard).
On the straightforward, factual level:
I think how well people can deal things is very contingent on their environment. In a world where they are constantly under pressure from a bunch of people with varying degrees of distrust, I think it can be really hard to deal with things. If they’re in an environment where they more or less get to directly control their life, I expect them to fare much better. Both because they object-level get to live in ways that are good for them, and also because having self-directed-efficacy is good for people even if they don’t get to use it to live exactly how they want.
When I imagine people splitting into sub-houses, I’m not imagining everyone splitting up based purely on how well they handle stress. I’m also imagining them splitting up based on what other things they actually want, and what style of stress management they prefer. i.e.
...do they prefer staying in their original home?
...do they prefer long walks in nature?
...do they prefer easy access to outdoor walks, or indoor hangouts, without other in person friends? Or are videocalls a good enough way to be social? Do they even care about being social?
...do they really want to remain in a city where they have lots of social or professional connections?
People vary on a lot of axes, and they form subgroups that enable each subgroup to thrive without as many competing access needs.
And then there’s the fact that smaller groups just requires less negotiation, period.
I agree that this a dimension along which things can improve orthogonal to stress-capacity, and if improvement along this dimension reduces stress-level enough, the original problem can go away to a large extent.