Technological progress means making things do more of what we want. There are two reasonably distinct categories of things I want. I don't have good names for

Technological progress means making things do more of what we want. There are two reasonably distinct categories of things I want. I don't have good names for them, so I'll just label them A and B: A is things like: Artificial organs, cheap clean energy, cheap clean and fast transportation, robot house-cleaners, faster-and-faster computers. B covers things like: When I was quitting smoking, I wanted more alcohol and coffee. When I was doing a boring job, I wanted to browse the internet more. When I was exhausted from a long commute I wanted more and more TV in the evenings. Category B is full of things I want, but which I don't want to want. What I really want is all the stuff in category A. I only ever "wanted" each thing in category B as a short-term quick fix to some other underlying problem in my life. Capitalism is great as far as it goes, but I don't believe it is able to distinguish between these two senses of want. Perhaps it needs an upgrade?