A Sense of Reasonable Effort
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With the adoption of services like Amazon, Doordash, etc. America has essentially built 'conveyor belts' to our homes. You could say that this logic of instant supply is reasonable when it comes to essential needs like water, gas, and electricity; but do we really need to have a direct feed of manufactured products into our homes?
↳ bis / Logic of Instant Supply, On-Demand
Now you never need to come out. In the twenty-first century, convenience is in your pocket or nearest in Internet-device. People are increasingly an easy set of keystrokes away from having any product or service delivered to their doorsteps. Does this feel reasonable, does it feel sustainable?
Wouldn't it feel reasonable to come out and weave with your neighborhood in order to get the products that sustain your lifestyle? Or does it make more sense to have society increasingly coordinate to deliver everything everyone wants to their doorsteps? A sense of reasonable effort is key in understanding ethics of service.
For any given goal or course of action, what’s your best guess as to what is a reasonable effort? — How far? How long? How quick? How much or how little is reasonable? Does it always have to be zero? Is that our target for everything? Is that even realistic? More importantly, is that beautiful? The movie Wall-E by Pixar comes to mind.
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Key / The Human Sense of Value