John Burn-Murdoch

Well, why not just get the LLM to write that essay and remove the em dashes?

But that's the thing.

And we don't want to get ahead of ourselves.

This isn't happening, or there's no evidence that this is happening yet.

But it does feel like a tool which can simultaneously or could equally be used

to enhance your knowledge or to sidestep the need to acquire knowledge.

That is just a sort of conscientiousness multiplier that could really widen the inequalities and outcomes between high and low conscientious people.

Sure.

So I'll say there's two parts to this as well, right?

So I think one is the sort of anxiety, mental health, well-being bit.

And the other is the extent to which people have this sort of ethic, this belief that if I work hard, I'm going to get results, I'm going to get rewarded, which is also both of these things are things where we see young people in the English speaking world moving in a negative direction over the last 10, 15 years, which as I say, lines up with housing and

The reason I think this is interesting and is plausible, at least to be one significant factor for me, is that I think so much in life is about the gap between expectations and achievement and reality.

So someone who never expects much and their life doesn't amount to much, sure, you know, that...

They're still not going to be the happiest people in the world.

But there's no sort of sense of having been cheated, swindled along the way there.

Whereas I think someone who starts out feeling that, right, this is how the system works.

If I do my bit, I'll get what my parents got, what other generations have got.

And then they find out that despite putting the work in, they don't get that.

You can imagine how that can be particularly damaging to someone's psyche and certainly damaging to their sense of this sort of societal fairness that if you work hard, you get rewarded.

So I think what you have here is English speaking countries have made homeownership the sort of go to signal marker of having made it in life.