We have already introduced so many automations into our lives in the past century. People from 100 years ago would assume that, with the tools we have today, we

We have already introduced so many automations into our lives in the past century. People from 100 years ago would assume that, with the tools we have today, we already would have reached “fully automated luxury communism”. But instead, we fall short of that utopia. The growth in consumption seems to always ever so slightly outpace innovation. A result of this relationship between consumption and innovation seems to be that there is always some drudgery for humans right beyond the edge of what we can automate. The drudgery serves to eek just a bit more out of the system in order to match the demands of consumption. Tomorrows drudgery will not look like todays, but it will remain drudgery all the same.