> It is interesting that the first thing society makes frictionless with technology is payments, easing consumerism. Perhaps we should have aimed to make othe

> It is interesting that the first thing society makes frictionless with technology is payments, easing consumerism. Perhaps we should have aimed to make other things frictionless By "society" and "we" I assume you are talking about American society? Because there are many societies that prioritize and in fact have already done these things. One could argue that America lags far behind other much more modern societies in virtually every metric that isn't "number of billionaires"