It is interesting look out how things start out as arbitrary, or even counterproductive, measures can become ingrained parts of our everyday lives. There are many things that we do as individuals, and as a society that were at one point just an arbitrary decision. While we do look to improve upon many aspects of our everyday lives there are some ingrained components that just we have just decided work, because "that's how we always do it".
Jared Diamond touches on this issue in Guns, Germs, and Steel. Here is an article he wrote tha explains The Curse of the QWERTY keyboard a little bit more.
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What I take away is the fact that even counterproductive measures can be implemented to reach productive capacities. So with a more efficient keyoard I could have typed this post in half the time. Still, to change the keyboard setup at this juncture would seem like a great inconvenience.
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