I think you two are a bit talking past each other. It is an entirely different question whether doing it is good for a child (I’d say yes, easy productive success and pride) or for an adult, especially a busy one i.e. whether a surgeon is better off doing the ironing after a hospital shift or should rather outsource it to hired help (I’d say the later).
Adult instincts are fairly reliable IMHO children’s instincts not so much.
Also, adults like it if they did nothing but work on the computer all day—it is satisfying to do something “real”.
Oh, they are very reliable … toward doing only those things that are really necessary. The genes don’t know whether the laundry is necessary. It might be it might be not. There will have been comparable tasks in the ancestral environment. It is adaptive to have a drive that looks for more potential.
I think you two are a bit talking past each other. It is an entirely different question whether doing it is good for a child (I’d say yes, easy productive success and pride) or for an adult, especially a busy one i.e. whether a surgeon is better off doing the ironing after a hospital shift or should rather outsource it to hired help (I’d say the later).
Adult instincts are fairly reliable IMHO children’s instincts not so much.
Also, adults like it if they did nothing but work on the computer all day—it is satisfying to do something “real”.
Oh, they are very reliable … toward doing only those things that are really necessary. The genes don’t know whether the laundry is necessary. It might be it might be not. There will have been comparable tasks in the ancestral environment. It is adaptive to have a drive that looks for more potential.