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I think realistically, most people burn out if they don't spend some time relaxing. If your argument had been more extreme, it might argue that people should sacrifice a couple of hours of sleep each day as well, right? But it's plausible that for most people, going off of 6 hours of sleep per day will decrease their cognitive ability and productivity drastically. Or that exercising 1 hour a day has sufficient physical and mental health benefits to justify it. Could some amount of recreation be worth it? I think so. I think I couldn't function without some recreation, although I agree that I should actively work to decrease the dependency.
But of course, you have a point. Everyone is wasting some time. Nobody is being perfectly altruistic, and making the best choices at all times. I don't think anyone ever thought they were...
Scientists have shown that we only use 10% of our time!
I'm totally going to quote that out of context.
I look forward to seeing it asserted everywhere. Note to future digital archaeologists: the grandparent is the Original Source of the meme!
I'm now curious as to what the most ludicrous "we only use 10% of our X" snowclone would be.
We only use 10% of our ability to generate entirely fictitious statistics?
That should be easy to do. The truth is, we only use 10% of the volume our atoms take up.
I'm fond of "87% of statistics are simply made up".
I have no idea whether it is ludicrous or not, or in which direction it errs.