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Originally Posted by ApK
Err...taxes and spouses aren't competitions either, but people still cheat on both of them.
Not sure if you seriously don't understand the use of the word here, or if you're playing a disingenuous semantic game, but the articles make the meaning pretty clear.
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I wasn't playing any games. Reading is something people do for pleasure, or information, or a combination. I don't see how someone can "cheat" on that. The concept makes no sense to me. With taxes you are cheating the government/your fellow citizens out of money lawfully owed to them, and with (monogamous) spouses you're breaking an oath. There are victims in each situation, just as there are with cheating in say a sports race.
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Originally Posted by ApK
I guess you're posting only in response to my comment, not to the actual articles, because "the work" referred to is the specific work the brain does*, not about how hard you might find the activity in the course of your day.
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No, I was responding to the WaPo article linked and pull-quoted from the original article:
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“Cheating” implies an unfair advantage, as though you are receiving a benefit while skirting some work. Why talk about reading as though it were work?
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In none of the above examples can I see a reasonable analogy to draw with simply listening instead of reading.