The High Cost of Complexity
From The High Cost of Complexity:
Whether you call it overabundance of possessions or just plain clutter, material things do consume a lot of our time. People spend their precious non-renewable resource, time, in order to acquire more money and possessions, only to discover that the possessions do little to further their enjoyment of life. In fact, possessions consume even more of this non-renewable resource. Not only does it take time to earn enough money to buy this stuff, it takes time to shop for it, learn how to operate it, maintain it in good working condition, repair it, upgrade it, insure it and use it.
I have spent days trying to make my PDA work - firmware upgrades take hours. Dell wants me to spend a few more hours doing a “Hard Reset” (aka Memory Wipe) before allowing me to return for warranty repair. Not to mention the time spent rebooting the PDA or the PC trying to get it to synchronize.