The productivity gains go to: - an ever increasing standard of living - stonks go up to prevent a pensioner revolt and to inflate egos of billionaires We are

The productivity gains go to: - an ever increasing standard of living - stonks go up to prevent a pensioner revolt and to inflate egos of billionaires We are kind of equivocating about "the grind" though. There is the grind of a student keeping their heads in books and activities while friends play video games or party or whatever. This grind has a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of obvious graduation dates and similar rites of passage. Then there is the grind of working at McDonalds or Walmart because that is the only opportunity left to you, and that is a grind that might easily go on forever unless you win the hunger games and get into a management track rat race.