At the same time, if progress is creating more crap or further degradation of our environment… maybe redefining progress as a metric would be interesting? But

At the same time, if progress is creating more crap or further degradation of our environment… maybe redefining progress as a metric would be interesting? But yes, someone has to do work indeed. Growing up, the plan was that the robots would do that and we would write poetry. Kinda worked the other way around eventually.