The only real progress brought on by technology so far (in terms of human happiness) is in medicine. Other than that it has mostly served to give people option

The only real progress brought on by technology so far (in terms of human happiness) is in medicine. Other than that it has mostly served to give people options that they don't really need. If technology is not freeing up people from their jobs, then I think it isn't delivering the real progress that humanity needs. Personally, I feel that the jobs have gotten worse especially in the last 5 years. I used to be an all rounder software engineer and these days I find myself more and more being either a front-end developer or a back end developer depending on the company... And the job is becoming increasingly tedious; that's why I change jobs every 6 to 12 months. I get paid more but the job gets more boring. Most people in the West shouldn't need to work but instead of coming up with UBI and taxing rich shareholders more, the government prefers to invent increasingly narrow and meaningless jobs to keep the masses busy. I think that's why Bitcoin is so valuable, everything in our system has become so extremely inefficient and low in value that now the only thing required for something to actually have value is the fact that it can get people's attention. If something can get people's attention and keep them busy, then wealthy people and big companies will poor some of their infinite money in it.