Shane Parrish

Yeah, exactly.

Signaling things that they're probably not intending to signal.

I mean... It probably drives a lot of human behavior, which drives ambition, which drives progress, which drives... I mean, if we genuinely didn't care, okay, if we had no shame, you're absolutely right.

That dishwasher probably works better than a modern one too, by the way.

Why are they four hour cycles now?

Come on.

I have one of these.

It's interesting.

Just as a funny aside, I have one of these dryers from the 80s in my house.

It came with the hose.

It dries the clothes.

The repairman is like, it's going to be just as expensive to fix this as it would be to buy a new one.

I'll just assume.

I was like, no, no, fix this one.

And he's like, why?

I was like, it dries the clothes in 30 minutes.

The interesting thing about the co-op apartments in particular, from what I understand, I don't understand everything, so I may be speaking a bit about something I don't know, is...

the degree to which all people play it.

Yes.

Whether you're sort of like a student just graduating or you're a billionaire, you're all sort of like playing this game in the co-op housing.