you would honestly rather spend your day doing something else, such as playing your favorite computer game
Is quite easy to have a system where there’s social disapproval for people who spent a lot of time playing computer games. Especially when you have social norms where it’s normal that people are open about how they spent their time.
Then instead of freedom, you have to do what other people think you should do. Unless you have enough social skills to convince them to let you do something you actually enjoy.
If people can punish you for playing computer games, they can also punish you for e.g. writing a book about rationality.
You can have social norms that hold people who have passion for big long term goals in high regard. That discourages sitting around and playing computer games all day while it encourages big projects like writing a book about rationality.
Don’t treat present societal norms as universal when it comes to taking about possible systems.
Then instead of freedom, you have to do what other people think you should do. Unless you have enough social skills to convince them to let you do something you actually enjoy.
For a society like this to work in a way that people can do what they enjoy you might need a higher average social skill level than we have in our society. You need deeper interactions.
Then instead of freedom, you have to do what other people think you should do.
We also don’t have perfect freedom. In our society you get punished socially if you are poor. You can replace that norm with asking whether people work towards a life purpose that inspires them.
Is quite easy to have a system where there’s social disapproval for people who spent a lot of time playing computer games. Especially when you have social norms where it’s normal that people are open about how they spent their time.
Then instead of freedom, you have to do what other people think you should do. Unless you have enough social skills to convince them to let you do something you actually enjoy.
If people can punish you for playing computer games, they can also punish you for e.g. writing a book about rationality.
You can have social norms that hold people who have passion for big long term goals in high regard. That discourages sitting around and playing computer games all day while it encourages big projects like writing a book about rationality.
Don’t treat present societal norms as universal when it comes to taking about possible systems.
For a society like this to work in a way that people can do what they enjoy you might need a higher average social skill level than we have in our society. You need deeper interactions.
We also don’t have perfect freedom. In our society you get punished socially if you are poor. You can replace that norm with asking whether people work towards a life purpose that inspires them.
You forgot an important qualifier: in Northern Europe.
You miss the point. We are talking about possible social systems.