"The positive thing is recognizing how much more is being accomplished." Is it? Are you spending more time with your loved ones? Have more time to enjoy nature

"The positive thing is recognizing how much more is being accomplished." Is it? Are you spending more time with your loved ones? Have more time to enjoy nature? Spend more time on hobbies? Get out of bed later, take more time for breakfast, have fewer or shorter working days? Compared to people a century ago, the answer is probably "yes!". Tech has made most people's lives more comfortable. But compared to say, 20..30y ago? Maybe. Much recent progress has been funneled into producing an ever-increasing stream of movies, gadgets, kitchen appliances, bigger cars & houses, nicer clothes, roads, shopping malls, etc, etc. Do we need those things to be happy? No. Do they make our lives easier? Sometimes. But also more complex to manage at the same time. Capitalism's marketing machine has become extremely good at selling us things. In many cases, things we really don't need, don't improve our lives, perhaps not even wanted. So a lot of that "accomplished more" is producing things of questionable utility. While under-estimating what we lose in exchange. But hey: profit! (well... for some people)