>How can we practice diligence if doing a full day's worth of work takes about 20 minutes We re-evaluate what a 'full day's worth of work' is. And, hopefully,

>How can we practice diligence if doing a full day's worth of work takes about 20 minutes We re-evaluate what a 'full day's worth of work' is. And, hopefully, become more productive. I don't disagree with (what seems to be) your central point. Labour-replacement technology reduces the extrinsic value of human industriousness, increasing laziness as a result. That is, assuming we don't compensate by demanding more economic output. But we do demand more... I guess it's not enough to compensate. I'm reminded of the idea of the 'power process' in the essay The industrial society and its future.