People are more productive... Look at what people had to do in the 70s and 80s... You'd spend all your time doing math to fill out a spreadsheet, cutting and g

People are more productive... Look at what people had to do in the 70s and 80s... You'd spend all your time doing math to fill out a spreadsheet, cutting and gluing construction paper to make a presentation, or re-typing a document to change a sentence. That's not the machine doing the work, it's just the machines making it easier for us to do the work. But the end result is an expectation to produce more better quality work faster than our parents or grandparents had to. My grandparents had a summer house, they took 7-kid family vacations, and they disconnected from co-workers when they left the building... And that's what "upper middle class" in America used to look like 40 years ago. And they had unions, and pension plans. When my grandfather retired, his pension was 80% of his pay for life. Plus what he had saved up for retirement. Anyway yes, I think we're a lot more productive.