This episode is also available as a blog post: https://gunthrek.wordpress.com/2022/05/31/career-and-the-illusion-of-choice/
One of the biggest lies that have been perpetrated in our modern culture is the idea that with more progress we end up having more choice. We see it in nearly every aspect of our lives, from clothing to food to entertainment and everything else. If you're talking about the sheer number of individual options available to you, then this is certainly a true statement. However, the reality is that out of the myriad options that might be available to us for one specific need, only two or three of them are actually reasonable and within what we would. This means that the illusion of a vast amount of choice isn't really all it's cracked up to be.
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