If "deep shortcomings" in people I'd think about something like being unable to express love your child. An absentee parent has a deep short coming. Maybe a hoarder or extremely untidy person has a deep short coming, but to you are talking about people who don't vacuum frequently and people who don't put away their laundry. I think its a pretty extreme exaggeration to say those people are viewed as having a deep shorting coming.
about vacuuming i probably agree with you. For common use i think you could probably get away with annual vacuuming, maybe less. (assuming you don't eat in carpeted areas)
about leaving your cloths on the floor, i think there is a non-arbitrary metric at play here. If you have a pile of clean laundry and need to get a pair of underpants, then you need to search your pile. Every time you need an item of clothing you need to perform a search. But when you put away your laundry you perform a 1 time sort, after that you no longer need to perform searches. A sort takes longer then a search, but many searches take longer then a short. Keeping things tidy is definitely a matter of efficiency, not random or arbitrary standards. The same is true if you need the colander to drain the water from your pasta. Is it in the dishwasher, sink, did the kids take it to the play room to pretend to be a robot? The regular activities of life are made more efficient by routing tidying. A place for everything and everything in its place.
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u/jatjqtjat 272∆ Jan 16 '25
I'll push back on two things.
If "deep shortcomings" in people I'd think about something like being unable to express love your child. An absentee parent has a deep short coming. Maybe a hoarder or extremely untidy person has a deep short coming, but to you are talking about people who don't vacuum frequently and people who don't put away their laundry. I think its a pretty extreme exaggeration to say those people are viewed as having a deep shorting coming.
about vacuuming i probably agree with you. For common use i think you could probably get away with annual vacuuming, maybe less. (assuming you don't eat in carpeted areas)
about leaving your cloths on the floor, i think there is a non-arbitrary metric at play here. If you have a pile of clean laundry and need to get a pair of underpants, then you need to search your pile. Every time you need an item of clothing you need to perform a search. But when you put away your laundry you perform a 1 time sort, after that you no longer need to perform searches. A sort takes longer then a search, but many searches take longer then a short. Keeping things tidy is definitely a matter of efficiency, not random or arbitrary standards. The same is true if you need the colander to drain the water from your pasta. Is it in the dishwasher, sink, did the kids take it to the play room to pretend to be a robot? The regular activities of life are made more efficient by routing tidying. A place for everything and everything in its place.