Oh sure, I'm not one of those "the world is so awful" people. We've made immense progress on a lot of very important dimensions. Fair point on the current outp

Oh sure, I'm not one of those "the world is so awful" people. We've made immense progress on a lot of very important dimensions. Fair point on the current output not producing enough to really give people their time back. And yes I agree, we should continue pushing productivity forward. My point is only that productivity growth by itself does not necessarily yield anything close to the optimal distribution of its benefits. In fact we have good reason to believe that higher tiers of technology which produce more technological leverage owned by fewer and fewer people are naturally antagonistic to optimal distribution of its benefits. I'll take a fairly expansive definition of "optimal distribution" here to just say we should shoot at least for a distribution of wealth that is socially and politically stable for a free society in the long run.