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Those examples save us minutes but don’t make humans more free or happier or safer. Better examples would be increased lifespans and lower infant mortality. St
by robertpateii 6y ago
Those examples save us minutes but don’t make humans more free or happier or safer. Better examples would be increased lifespans and lower infant mortality. Stuff that ties into the standard of living definition. Which is the point: our standard of living has not increased at the same rate as productivity.
- WalterBright 6y agoModern cars are a heluva lot safer. Expected lifespan is quite a bit higher. You can't expect it to increase at the same rate as productivity, because it asymptotically approaches a limit. Whether you're happy or not is up to you, not society. People, regardless of their status, tend to be at about the same level of happiness.
- robertpateii 6y agoAre you saying that right now the quality of life for all Americans has reached a its asymptotic limit in regards to productivity?
- WalterBright 6y agoLifespan asymptotically approaches biological limits, i.e. the rate of progress inevitably slows. > all I wish people would stop adding such qualifiers to construct strawmen.
- robertpateii 6y agoOhhh by “it” you mean lifespan not quality of life or standard of living which are the relevant measurements of what we should be gaining from productivity. I didn’t realize you were going to nit pick a couple of very specific examples among many. p.s. also didn’t expect you to nit pick examples I gave that I thought would better serve your original point: big life changing stuff has improved. I expected us to move on to discuss what is of major value that we should expect from productivity.