I thin what Carmack is saying here makes sense if all you care about is productivity. But the two salient things to this discussion are, to me, first that the v

I thin what Carmack is saying here makes sense if all you care about is productivity. But the two salient things to this discussion are, to me, first that the vast majority of people do not/can not work on something they genuinely care about (since work is allocated by capital, not personal preference or even democratic decision making) and, secondly, productivity has increased steadily for decades while compensation has remained flat. Given that second thing in particular, I think any ordinary worker, working for a wage, is stupid for not trying to claw back some of those gains, either via a shorter work week, more wages, more socialism, whatever. When I look at that diverging productivity/compensation curve I wonder how workers in this country were so comprehensively subdued.