Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Is this a good use of time and human resources?
I was thinking today about the time we spend cutting our fingernails. Assume for the sake of argument that we each do it roughly once a week and it takes about a minute. I reckon that means that worldwide there are on average something like half a million of us cutting our fingernails at any particular moment. Just think what half a million people could do if they weren't all cutting their fingernails....
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On the other hand, think about what they couldn't do if they didn't: scratch their heads, pick their noses, remove their scabs, scrape drops of food off their clothes, draw on frosty windows, pluck guitar strings....
ReplyDeleteYes, but those are harder to estimate - too many unknown variables.
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