This made something click for me: I hear all the time about how a) technology makes people's lives better, but b) people's lives in the US seem to be sucking a

This made something click for me: I hear all the time about how a) technology makes people's lives better, but b) people's lives in the US seem to be sucking a lot lately. The sucking, this theory would predict, is due to people having their jobs obviated by technology, but then being screwed out of the good part of that technology, directly or indirectly, by phone companies with monopolies who conspire to charge by the gigabyte and therefore deny the wider economy the benefit of technological improvement. (This is not to say that a 50-year-old who gets laid off would feel better if he had cheaper internet access. The effects of cheaper internet access overall, though, seem like they would end up producing cheaper food and other costs in the end, too.)