I wouldn't call it abuse of trust but it's a bad idea to do a migration or any operation that can fail and cause downtime without warning the clients. Come Monday and no servers are online, what do you say, "oops, I tried to change something that didn't work"? that is fine only if they knew there was a migration over the weekend. On my end this situation would fireable offense or close to it.
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert is a good read on this - it essentially covers many psychology experiments on happiness. I mean, overstates what the studies actually say and gets repetitive by the end as you might expect for this kind of book, but it’s interesting nonetheless and avoids becoming a self help or life philosophy book. The hedonic treadmill is very real.
Perhaps we could differentiate happiness and fulfillment? Climbing a mountain might not make you happy (who is happy when their feet hurt etc) but it might bring you satisfaction and fulfillment. Many things are like that, but not every thing that others find fulfilling will be a fit for you.
Maybe, but that’s not always feasible. Change fields? To what? Maybe teaching, but not every blue collar job can do that, let alone not every worker is capable. And not everyone is fit for management either, and for every manager there’s at least 10 workers under them, so there isn’t space for everyone. The ideal is to actually improve conditions, especially factors outside of the worker’s control, so as to allow them to have a proper retirement.
"plenty of people have pointed out that vintage scifi is full of rocketships but all the pilots are men. 1950s scifi shows 1950s society, but with robots. Meanwhile, the interstellar liners have paper tickets, that you queue up to buy. With fundamental technology change, we don't so much get our predictions wrong as make predictions about the wrong things. (And, of course, we now have neither trolleys nor personal gliders.) "
Yes, Asimov's Foundation has people smoking, reading physical newspapers and using physical money, lining up for customs when arriving to Trantor. No women until later on in the series (in his defense, he may have not talked to many women at the age he wrote the first novels).
There was movable sidewalks and other transportation devices though.
Yes, Asimov's Foundation has people smoking, reading physical newspapers and using physical money, lining up for customs when arriving to Trantor. No women until later on in the series (in his defense, he may have not talked to many women at the age he wrote the first novels).
The stories also have to be marketable to contemporary audiences. There may have been brilliant sci-fi at the time about strong, health-minded female protagonists, but I doubt it would have risen to popularity in 1950s society, and thus would have been forgotten.
You can see the effects today with some of the backlash against certain Disney IP.
I don't think sci-fi is a good predictor because of both the author's bias and society's (i.e. the The Market's) bias against topics that upset it.
A similar point can be made for the physical newspaper aspect; not every author is trying to impart accelerando-esque future shock on their readers. And presumably there isn't infinite market demand for that either. All different aspects of selection bias.
