> You would likely be better off for taking more risks, trying more new things, and taking fewer things for granted
Is one challenge that we are not simultaneously living the other reality to make the comparison ourselves? And that people may have an experimentation "budget" to spend on a few things of choice -- maybe it is exhausting to try out new commute options, new cities to live in, new employment sectors, new friends and associations, etc. all at once.
The Covid experiment reveled the advantages of WFH.
This is a perfect example of this. Otherwise, people would have been too risk-averse to try.
Makes sense, I saw Joseph Henrich on dwarkes saying that part of inventions and innovation is just randomness and diversity.
> You would likely be better off for taking more risks, trying more new things, and taking fewer things for granted
Is one challenge that we are not simultaneously living the other reality to make the comparison ourselves? And that people may have an experimentation "budget" to spend on a few things of choice -- maybe it is exhausting to try out new commute options, new cities to live in, new employment sectors, new friends and associations, etc. all at once.