> I think you have it backwards, progress should lead us to a world where you don't really need to work. If you haven't read, Bertrand Russell in his "In Prais

> I think you have it backwards, progress should lead us to a world where you don't really need to work. If you haven't read, Bertrand Russell in his "In Praise of Idleness" essay talks exactly about that, how technological progress should bring more idle time to workers. It's from the 1920s... Instead we are under a system where almost all the extra productivity is siphoned away from the ones actually producing something, left with some breadcrumbs while those siphoning the product of labour keep constantly asking for more productivity from their workers for personal gain. Historically any change to this system has only been achieved through bloodshed, which is very, very unfortunate...