Dammit -- free markets and new technology do it again! Not the best written piece in the world, nor the most tightly argued, but the underlying facts do certai

Dammit -- free markets and new technology do it again! Not the best written piece in the world, nor the most tightly argued, but the underlying facts do certainly get at a certain truth: that things get better. For everybody. Bread, for example (the production of which used to consume the vast majority of human labor for many thousands of years). What was once an 80-hour-a-week-job (growing wheat, turning it into bread), can how be had for $.99 at a corner store (or the equivalent of about ten minutes' work at minimum wage. The second argument being, science.