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> we haven't gotten more share of the money. But your money buys stuff that 50 years ago would have been too expensive for the richest men in the world. A pock
by throw310822 11mo ago
> we haven't gotten more share of the money.
But your money buys stuff that 50 years ago would have been too expensive for the richest men in the world. A pocket supercomputer, advanced diagnostics and medicine, instant access to information anywhere in the world.
- WarOnPrivacy 11mo agoMaterial gains (produced by more productive workers) don't offset the increases in the number of expenses required to minimally live (ex:utilities, transpo, insurance, comms) and the ever escalating costs of those added requirements Nor does it offset the accelerating increases in complexity for basic living factors - complexity that consumes internal resources and time. More to the point, a pocket supercomputer is an irrelevancy for a typical wage worker, who's earnings are far insufficient for even the barest self-sufficiency.