The progress does not come from the absense of effort. That is just a transparent self serving "greed is good" class of argument from the lazy. It merely employ

The progress does not come from the absense of effort. That is just a transparent self serving "greed is good" class of argument from the lazy. It merely employs enough cherry picked truth to sound valid. The progress comes from amplification of effot, which comes from leverage (output comes from input), not magic (output comes from nowhere) or theft (output comes from someone else).