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If people used all the freed-up time to only pursue leisure, progress would be slow. When we use freed-up time to do productive things or things that facilitat
by mc32 3y ago
If people used all the freed-up time to only pursue leisure, progress would be slow. When we use freed-up time to do productive things or things that facilitate others being productive directly or indirectly, that speeds up progress. Some of that progress is good (medicine) and some bad (weapons, user-data driven advertising)
- deepsquirrelnet 3y agoIn the spirit of the article, progress also means an ever quickening pace of life — and perhaps lessening quality of life, broadly increasing mental health distress and increasing numbers of people falling out of the labor force. I think it’s at least worthwhile to pay mindfulness to the situation, and consider if the path we’re on ends in self destruction. Because most of the west is not setup to pump the brakes.
- mc32 3y agoIt has some merit for sure. I also lament some of this loss, but someone has to conduct the progress. As we are, the third world for the most part relies on the first world to carry out most of the modern inventions that fuel progress which also benefits them. (inventions and goods are exported) Someone has to do it. It's Switzerland vs Romania; Or Japan vs Philippines; US vs Argentina.