We are going around in circles. When we are doing something, we won't be able to do a thousand other things we could be doing. Only the future can tell whether

We are going around in circles. When we are doing something, we won't be able to do a thousand other things we could be doing. Only the future can tell whether that turns out to be great or not, however, how we react to those experiences is under our control. Millions of people live about the way you have described, doing manual chores (perhaps out of necessity), and may be they are missing out on the joys of commenting on HN or may be I am indeed missing out on something when I eschew some degree of manual work (I have experienced this). The point is not automating stuff, it is what do you do when you have automated the boring stuff that is matter - do you just scroll your feed ? Not to mention that some amount of boredom is necessary to make us value the interesting aspect of life. OP is more correct than you realize. Your judgement of how life was is in the past, while what your life is in the now.