Today I was thinking about the difference between using a **dishwasher** or doing the **dishes by hand**. I noticed while doing the dishes by hand I was much more aware of my *consumption*: the amount of plates, how dirty they are, the water required to clean the dishes, the amount of soap, the effort required, and so forth.
When you put everything into the dishwasher and merely press the ON-button. The dishwasher takes over. It solves all your worries — we explicitly don’t want to know what is happening inside. Of course this the exact reason why most people adore the machine: it gives us a **shortcut** for doing the dishes. So we can spend time on something else.
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