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Originally Posted by Zyr
True. The point I was trying to illustrate, is that "going the extra mile" often isn't worth it.
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And the point I'm trying to illustrate that
in the short term, going the extra mile doesn't seem to be worth it. Putting in a little bit of time and effort now can save you a lot time and effort later. But this spate of examples doesn't really address the thread's orignal question of a priori justification.
You could justify it on the front of keeping your options open. If you settle for mediocrity at any point, it becomes that much more difficult to persue excellence. By failing to "go the extra mile" today, it just means you'll have to go two extra miles tomorrow to catch up. But that doesn't sound very convincing to me, either.
It's also a question of how excellence is rewarded. If you are a fast and efficient worker... you are, more likely than not, going to be "rewarded" by being unfairly burdened with more work than your average fellow cow-orkers.