I find it interesting that some of the things that give slack also take it away. The obvious example is cell phones. Especially at first they gave slack by letting you leave the house while you were waiting for an important phone call, but eventually ate it by creating an expectation that you’d always be available.
Soylent gives me slack by saving time during lunch, until shorter lunch breaks become the norm. No, it’s not really the new technology that’s eating your slack, your manager is doing it. Those people who decided they aught to be able to call you on a whim. All we have to do is tell them no and they’ll find a way to live with it. Sometimes it can be hard to tell them no, and that’s why we have unions.
This is because social structures strive to keep slack homeostatic at your level. As soon as you have more slack than you need to service your superiors in the social hierarchy, they will take that slack for themselves.
I think that’s a matter of the slack being pulled in by the remote end you had estabolished slack towards, much like wage increases push cost of living in affected areas up accordingly.
I find it interesting that some of the things that give slack also take it away. The obvious example is cell phones. Especially at first they gave slack by letting you leave the house while you were waiting for an important phone call, but eventually ate it by creating an expectation that you’d always be available.
I think what we are looking at here is Moloch eating all slack out of the system. I think that is a summary of about 75% of what Moloch does.
Soylent gives me slack by saving time during lunch, until shorter lunch breaks become the norm. No, it’s not really the new technology that’s eating your slack, your manager is doing it. Those people who decided they aught to be able to call you on a whim. All we have to do is tell them no and they’ll find a way to live with it. Sometimes it can be hard to tell them no, and that’s why we have unions.
This is because social structures strive to keep slack homeostatic at your level. As soon as you have more slack than you need to service your superiors in the social hierarchy, they will take that slack for themselves.
I think that’s a matter of the slack being pulled in by the remote end you had estabolished slack towards, much like wage increases push cost of living in affected areas up accordingly.