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I wrote this after my scheduling AI suggested filling every gap in my calendar the same week my kid was struggling because her dad was traveling. The AI was technically right—I could fit more meetings in. But it had no way to know I was running on fumes. Got me thinking about Weber's "iron cage"—how systems of rational efficiency trap us by optimizing for everything except what actually matters. Modern AI inherits the Protestant work ethic: productivity is moral, idle time is suspect, you are what you produce. These are design choices, not inevitabilities. We could build AI that asks "What do you want more of?" instead of "How can we optimize your time?" Curious what folks here think, especially those building productivity tools. Are we encoding the wrong values by default?