That depends on how you measure things. I think what people want most of all is to have access to the stability of production guaranteed by modern industrial p

That depends on how you measure things. I think what people want most of all is to have access to the stability of production guaranteed by modern industrial practices. Our society converts stability and abundance in the production process into precarity and reward/punish incentive structures in the access controls to consumption. These represent fundamentally different modes of interaction with the economy and social environment. They're different worlds. And what does talk about production in "real terms" say about the value of one over the other?