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• Bacano@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maximizing the utility of labor? I’m alluding to using the components of the scenario in the most efficient way.

  How would you express it?

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  • WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The “utility” of utilitarianism isn’t that type of utility. IIRC it generally refers to the idea of maximizing happiness and minimizing harm, with a focus on outcomes of the whole, rather than the individual. Efficiency of labor doesn’t explicitly factor into it.

    Personally, I think you’re just rationalizing being lazy and potentially causing harm to others, which isn’t utilitarian at all.

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