Of course we could, but it would mean a sharp reduction in the values of most stocks, declines in economic output as measured by products and services bought an

Of course we could, but it would mean a sharp reduction in the values of most stocks, declines in economic output as measured by products and services bought and sold, and empowerment of regular people at the expense of elites. People would spend a lot more time creating art and spending time with friends and family and not converting raw materials into widgets. For all those reasons, it can’t happen without some kind of revolutionary break with our current economic system. I mean on some level you have to see past the whole work/life balance paradigm and see that really, it’s all life, and is this really how you want to live it? If we were genuinely free to make choices and not forced to fight over positional assets we would make dramatically different choices.