I realize you're just replying to cgag and danenania, but I want to point out that this thread is running the risk of a bad conflation: Work != technological a

I realize you're just replying to cgag and danenania, but I want to point out that this thread is running the risk of a bad conflation: Work != technological advancement. More to the point, while good things come out of work, so do a lot of bad things. The more selective we can be about how we work, the more capable we are of filtering out the bad effects while retaining the good ones.